LLMs are far from perfect but they can be a very useful tool that, used well, can add significant value in spite of their flaws. Large numbers of people and businesses are extracting huge value from the use of LLMs every single day. Some people are building what will become wildly successful businesses around LLM technology.
Yet in the face of this we still see a population of naysayers who appear intent on rubbishing LLMs at any cost. To me that seems like a pretty bad faith dialogue.
I’m aware that a lot of the positive rhetoric, particularly early on after the first public release of ChatGPT was overstated - sometimes heavily so - but taking one set of shitty arguments and rhetoric and responding to it with polar opposite, but equally shitty, arguments and rhetoric for the most part only serves to double the quantity of shitty arguments and rhetoric (and, adding insult to injury, often does so in the name of “balance”).