Comment by drivebyhooting
1 day ago
Excuse me, but even if in principle of “information wants to be free”, the actual outcome of LLMs is the opposite of democratizing information and access. It completely centralizes accesses, censorship, and profits in the hands of a few mega corporations.
It is completely against the spirit of information wants to be free. Using that catch phrase in protection of mega corps is a travesty.
> It completely centralizes accesses, censorship, and profits in the hands of a few mega corporations.
Have the biggest models be legally forced to be released in the open for end users, then. Best of both worlds.
Wait a few years, and you'll even be able to run those models in commodity hardware.
Enshittification in order to give returns to shareholders suck. The tech is great and empowering for the commons.
LLMs are just a concept, an abstraction. A data type for storing data.
The actual problem is political. Has nothing to do with LLMs.
Those are meaningless words when you know the discussion is about LLMs taking in people's intellectual property and selling it back.
> LLMs are just a concept, an abstraction. A data type for storing data.
C'mon. You know good and well that what is being discussed is the _use_ of LLMs, with the concomitant heavy usage of CPU, storage, and bandwidth that the average user has no hope of matching.