There is no path back to a functioning society that allows for the continued existence of LLMs. It just isn’t viable to have a tool that can generate a large volume of plausible sounding text, often directly spitting out what is in its dataset, without eroding all public trust and desire to participate in the commons.

LLMs are going to fucking kill us. They’ve made mistrust the default and our world just cannot work like this. We’re basically speedrunning into the societal conditions of well established fascism where nothing and no one can be trusted anymore. I cannot fathom the people who are seeing this erosion of trust and erosion of communities and going “yeah, but progress” as a reason to not even mildly push back with their policies and stances.

I know we’ve lived under decades of effective rightist propaganda and governments successfully arresting and eliminating any and all resistance movements, but it’s unfathomable to me to see most people put up no resistance and just go along for the ride.