When I first saw the post I wondered if that was a carefully defined stance or a linguistic shortcut, and its fine both ways, really, but I was a philosophy student, this is my thing

“inherent” is a strong word, and perhaps fascistic tendencies (not convinced as to whether the whole thing is fascistic yet) are an inherent aspect to the kind of llm we are aware of. There’s a but: would it be impossible to create an opt-in LLM database? It wouldn’t happen in the world we currently know, but if we talk about inherent characteristics, that’s the exact thing we need to talk about (you don’t have to care about this at all, there’s no law about what words mean what, but it makes it easier to share ideas without confusion. And judging by the comments, there has been confusion). Do I think we could benefit from an LLM? While I hate chatbots with a passion, they dont have to be chatbots. Deep.ly is a translation only LLM, I used that back in 2018-2019 because that was the very best automated translator available for free and I had pages of technical stuff to translate (maybe they changed since then, idk). Translation can be both utilitarian and artistic, I certainly wouldn’t want a robot to translate poems, but even if, would that be fascistic?