Human learning is the key

These words are, effectively, a language fraud. What stands before us performs no learning, no intelligence, but a mimicry of automated language, which, by pure bruteforce, produces the illusions that it does something. It combinates millions or billions of parameters and hidden trials and errors to give you, after consuming far too much power, time and ressources, an approximation of the external signs of articulated thinking. The machine only puppets you into believing it sees you, while in fact it's no more than a probability engine which rearranges words into realistic sentences.

It poses a lot of problems, ontological problems.

Firstly, a machine designed to produce average results breeds average mediocrity into people. It's easily observable into pseudo-art (writing and pictures) : these sentences and images produced by LLM-IA are the allegort of Mediocrity, average of average tastes, safe and soulless, without any artistic merit. It is synthetic doxa. Of course, global mediocrity is more or less western industrial mediocrity, as this cultural model shaped the global taste.

This mediocrity is sprinkled wirh hallucinations : fake dreams from a fake dreamer. Sometimes the average generated by LLM-IA isn't te desired outcome, so it is percieved as "an error, an hallucination" by the user. It is a misguided reaction. Because it supposes the machine can produce truth. You want the truth, but you ask it to a narrative machine which cannot identify meaning or truth, it only understands probability in its training corpus of documents. And more often than not, the average babble is not the truth ; it's only clichés, beliefs and false ideas people repeat ad nauseam.

By design, the machine cannot synthesise intelligence, meaning or truth because observable language (pictural or written) doesn't convey the activity of thinking but is obly a byproduct of it.

You can fake it with a probability machine well enough to lure and decieve people, but only with simple and mundane topics. Your robot can mimic language well enough to become a mediocre middle manager, foe example. But only because this activity doesn't require any thinking (it's only data summary, graph presentation, corporate speaking and doxa babble).

But it is more dangerous than just a broken machine by design (in the domain of truth and thinking ; it's actually quite a good machine for some other activities). It also destroys human learning, and that is what I fear, and think we should concern ourselves about.

More and more students are using LLM instead of reading, writing and learning themselves. By doing that, they destroy the very process of learning, which requires to actively engage with reading and writing. You cannot learn to write without writing, and it is this activity which mostly makes you learn about a field, but also how to logically form ideas and arguments.

Rigourous logical thinking is actually quite difficult to acquire, it takes years. By reading, you accumulate knowledge and learn to distinguish good argumentation from bad, from a formal logical perspective. But only by writing yourself do you acquire the skills to form wellread and perfectly sound arguments. By doing that, you also develop your thinking abilities. Complex, articulated, balanced, free thinking is not a natural given ability. It's a skill that demands constant work.

I think we easily can lose human thinking through the attacks of machine pseudo-thinking. It pollutes the well of human knowledge wirh mediocrity and false informations. It atteacts people to subsidize their thinking ability to the machine of a mega-corporation. It deprives people of what makes us human : emotional, logical and soulful intelligence. Because what I said about logical work can be also said about artistic and emotional work.

Please, create yourself. Use your brain, it's like a muscle that shrinks if it is not used. Read, write, draw, perform human activities with human fellows. It is the sane way to develop yourself, and society as a whole, against the ambition of corporations who want to reduce us to sad locusts, empty beings only made to "consume content", but not to engage with the oldest treasures of humanity intellect : the liberal arts which have been known for millenias to enhance and open our minds to the beauties of human existence.

Why be here if not to know beauty and truth ?

An empty existence isn't very appealing, init ?

It is a kind of servitude to lose your ability to form complex and nuanced feelings, thoughts and arts.