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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Ok:

  • Added zero actual value to humanity: debatable for both. Both of them make information, right or wrong, more easily accessible to people, whether that's a net value to society is debatable. The me too movement would've been impossible without the Internet, but so would the MAGA movement.
  • Can do any task about 70% correctly about 70% of the time: I'll give you that one
  • Drove up electricity demands through the roof: check, happened slower then AI, but especially in the early days it was increasing demand, and the Internet in general is a cause for far more demand then AI
  • Gave humanity the option to make childporn from their armchair: can't make child porn, but made it exponentially more accessible and prevalent.
  • Is generating such hardware shortages that computer hardware prices have doubled, tripled, quadrupled, and more to come!: I'll give you that one
  • Increased misinformation by factors of thousands, if not more: check
  • Broke CAPTCHAs for good, thanks for that: didn't break captchas but increased spam and made it harder to detect bots which made it necessary to make captcha
  • Caused wild random growth of super datacenters that pollute like crazy and take away all the groundwater everywhere: check, most data centers these days are still running traditional servers that hold up the Internet.
  • Steals all data from everyone everywhere with impunity: check
  • Highly confident in giving the wrong answer: check, it just used to be that a human would give you that wrong answer confidently. People didn't need AI to write thousands of articles and posts about vaccines causing autism.
  • Literally made ma y people lose their mind into AI psychosis: check, it's made large chunks of society delusional, and many people have lost there minds on it
  • Do I still need to continue?

9/11, so most. LLMs are the Internet distilled, and thus they have the same problems, and benefits of it.