ai is trained on the stuff already written. Software has been taking a nosedive for ages (ex, committing to shipping something in 6 months before one even figures out what to put in it). If anything shit will get worse due to the deskilling being caused by ai.
If it can generate porn, it can do so because it was explicitly trained on porn. Therefore the system was designed to generate porn. It can't just materialize a naked body without having seen millions of them. they do not work that way.
What accumulation of knowledge? LLMs are marketed as "democratizing" (I hate this term) software development specifically by claiming to remove the need for knowledge.
Software development hasn't been democratized. The term doesn't even make sense. Anyone could learn whatever using the same resources as anyone else. I would (and have, in the past) gladly teach anyone who asks me to. And most of my friends would too. The fact that non-devs couldn't write code was not because devs were gatekeeping, but because they didn't want to learn. And they still don't.
A tool is something I can tightly control. A thing that may or may not work today, and if it does, might stop working tomorrow when the model gets updated without any notification to anyone, the output of which I have to very carefully scrutinize anyway, is not a tool. It's a toy.
Prepare for everyone's subscriptions to shoot through the roof!
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