Gregory's Server
Back on my theme of trying to understand why LLMs have taken off:
Puzzle piece 1: LLMs are, in Frankfurt's sense of the term, bullshit machines. To him, a core component of bullshit is "indifference to how things really are".
Puzzle piece 2: Managerialism, a dominant business philosophy, holds that managers are universal. They can manage anything without regard to the topic. Without truly learning "how things really are".
Puzzle piece 3: On average, the larger the company the higher the density of bullshit. CEO statements, managerial presentations up and down, customer comms, etc. Related is the density of office politics, careerism, etc.
So putting this together, it seems like our corporate hierarchies have a hard time understanding the weak point of LLMs because standard corporate culture has the same weak point: valuing many other things over the truth.
@williampietri
I'd suggest a 4th piece, though I can't tell if this is an unfounded conspiracy theory or so obvious no one has bothered saying it. I expect we'll learn the push to find a use case for LLMs (and NFTs before that) was significantly driven and funded by fossil fuel companies who saw data centers as a way to maintain demand for their product, after clean energy would otherwise make ffs increasingly superfluous.