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Sure, but that's a separate claim, and I guess to my mind I dunno if we'll know how it shakes out for a few years, since everyone's still figure it out.

It does seem like a problem that these tools depend on humans to create new information that they can regurgitate and that they’re creating the economic conditions that will make those people even rarer than they already are

Yeah, I see that as a problem if the models don't develop, and I think in particular the effects on journalism are very concerning.

The models can develop all they want to but *they can’t go out into the world and collect new information*.

I do think some people really are weirdly ignoring the whole “LLMs can’t go out into the world and collect information that a human hasn’t already recorded and put on the internet” thing

The people who use LLMs for travel planning are already running into this in that those LLMs can only exploit info a human has ready put into an accessible online system, and travel information is inherently constantly volatile and shifting

And currently LLMs seem to be depending on travel bloggers and online reviews but as they’re already killing travel bloggers businesses and I suspect that online reviews are declining rapidly…

anyway hi @travelfish.bsky.social