@b0rk It's a huge bummer. The technology IS cool and does present a huge advancement in our ability to interface with natural language.
I think it's important to frame it, instead of "can it do x?", as "sure, it can or might eventually be able to do X, but at what cost?" LLMs can and should exist and be accessible, and small open source models you can run on commodity hardware DO exist.
The problem is the eschatological venture capital death cult that's made LLMs their hobby horse,as always