Cory Doctorow posted a really good take on LLMs and generative machine learning, and their effects on society. His gist is that there are things they are useful for, most of which we haven’t correctly discovered yet, but also there is indisputably a bubble, investment in which is being driven by the sales pitch to owners that they will be able to reduce costs by eliminating labor (you and me). And when the bubble pops that will be a huge impact on the economy and many other people will then also lose their jobs. So what should we be doing about all that?