LLMs everywhere? It's unnecessary
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Adam Tinworth writes on onemanandhisblog.com:
LLMs are NOT answer machines. They’re guessing machines. And any guess has the potential to be wrong.
That’s true. Developers of AI tools are trying to push it everywhere they can push it. For profit, of course. But Internet users don’t need artificial intelligence literally everywhere. There are tools that function well enough without it. A perfect example of how AI has messed up search is some search engine results in last months (screenshots are circulating on the web).
Another example of tools that worked well enough without AI are RSS readers. Adding AI-based features to them - fine, it’s keep with the times - is a distraction from the main advantages of this type of tool, which - by design - should be entirely user-centered. He is the one who should create the list of sources on his own, not be bombarded with recommendations like in social networks functioning on a closed garden basis.