I find in my line of work that if you ask it "101-"grade questions, like the kind of questions a beginner who knows next to nothing would ask, you’ll get acceptable (not good, but acceptable) answers from LLMbeciles. As soon as it requires any degree of serious technical know-how, or as soon as context starts to matter, the utility plummets dramatically from “acceptable” to “what the actual fuck are you thinking using this!?”
The problem is that asking those 101- questions of your coworkers gets you acceptable or better answers more quickly, and often, as a bonus, stuff that has examples straight out of your workspace. So LLMbeciles are kind of worthless for beginner questions too.
I agree, actually. While I think there does have to be some protection against people using the work of creatives without some form of recompense, the current laws surrounding this are broken to the point of uselessness. Only the huge masters get benefit from IP law in the west, not the people.
We need to fix that whole aspect of human life. But until then, we need to also recognize that we live in a broken system and people who play stupid games in that system win stupid prizes.