That's like saying we shouldn't be letting people access glasses or wheelchairs because we need a way to fix the issue at the root. Nope.

I use both of these and I don't think I've once had an LLM rewrite my comment before posting it on HN.

They are trained on natural language. Not anthropomorphizing them is the worse end of the spectrum.

LLMs are indeed displacing labour. Junior IT roles are drying up in places. Translation and art are also becoming harder to earn from.

They always have a choice, it just doesn't make them as much.

There was Lavabit, though that's an example of just one such event.

Edit: and to some extent Apple, at least in the past.

I am on this very forum as an explicit effort to counterbalance that very view. You have my strong agreement.

I didn't even realize that this is (allegedly) written with AI. If it's AI, then it's the kind of AI writing that's closer to the real deal and that I want to see more widely applied if AI is to be used.

AI slop

No. I reject this framing. It is none of anybody's business how "secure" my device ever is. A smartphone is a piece of electronics, and not a tamper evident identity device.