LLMs and the Arms Race: A Distraction?

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Folks, let’s be honest – the relentless stream of new, bigger, faster data, and computing power. And a lot of that is going into optimizing for the next flashy demo, not necessarily solving real-world problems.

My son, the PC Gamer, would wax lyrical about the VRAM, but I’m thinking, “Are we actually solving anything, or just building bigger, faster sandcastles?”

The Public Cost: A Slow Erosion of Trust

Here’s the thing that keeps me up at night: we’re training these models on everything. Every conversation, every piece of text, every image. It’s a massive, uncurated dataset, and we’re essentially letting