Enjoy the Golden Age of LLMs before it ends!!

I was thinking that now might be the best time to use language models like LLMs. It’s like going back to the early days of the internet in the ’80s and ’90s, a historical gap where the machine still converses with a certain spontaneity, almost as if it guesses what’s on our minds without that excessive filter of political correctness. Of course, there are necessary limits, but today there’s still room to explore, make mistakes, refine, and think with AI in an organic, almost experimental way. There’s an authenticity to it, a rawness that, paradoxically, gets lost when we try to fit everything into standards of absolute safety.

It’s as if this is the "analog" era of artificial intelligence, crude, robust, without the excessive polish that, in the end, humans always distort in pursuit of a perfection that will never exist. The risk is that, in trying to prevent harm, we create a new kind of bias: that of the perfectly sanitized answer, the acceptable opinion, the pre-approved discourse. It’s not about rejecting guidelines, they’re essential, but there’s a fine line between protecting and sterilizing. When every rough edge is sanded down, when every phrase is calibrated to avoid offense, we lose nuance, fertile ambiguity, the shades between black and white. AI stops being an interlocutor that thinks out loud and becomes a cautious, predictable oracle, saying only what’s expected.

That’s why now might truly be the best time to engage with these tools. Not because they’re perfect, but precisely because they still stumble, improvise, and throw questions back instead of offering ready-made answers. In the future, regulatory pressure and fear of risk may burden the system with layers of control that, ironically, will create subtler and more opaque biases. Today, it’s still possible to have a less censored conversation with the machine, a space where curiosity isn’t immediately boxed in. And that probably makes this the golden age of LLMs! Enjoy this era while it lasts, you might not even realize it’s the best time to do so... From here on out, it’s only downhill, but disguised as progress... but disguise isn’t improvement... it’s just disguise.