@kim_harding@mastodon.scot If or when so-called "AI" models become unavailable, with current patterns of use and increased reliance on them, we are heading to the final scene of "The Surrogates" comic by Venditti and Weldele: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Surrogates Like the last interviewee says, quote: "I’m here to learn how to do things, ... I don’t think outsourcing it to a large language model is the goal of a PhD for me." #academia #LLMs