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LLMs are attracting so much positive attention because they are likely to be a huge, huge step change improvement than all those methods you mention.

For that same exact reason, it’s totally reasonable they’re attracting unique amounts of negative attention too.

You can’t have it both ways: yes LLMs are going to change information retrieval the way nothing else has before, but no it’s actually just like all the other things in terms of their impact on incentive structures.

FWIW I don’t really know where I land on this issue. I just find it totally incoherent to believe in the bull case of “this will transform everything” while also portraying it all as par for the course when discussing potential negatives.

Just because Spark Notes didn’t obviously manage to kill valuable parts of our information ecosystem and economy does not mean that Spark Notes x 10,000,000 will not.