Comment by buran77
1 hour ago
I think they see it all too well. They still think they can make bank today while it lasts, whatever comes after is some other shareholder's problem. And if we're talking about open source, killing it might be a positive side effect, they'll be ready to sell you a closed source alternative when you no longer have options.
Furthermore, if people not only stop publishing, but also take down already published works, it will create a moat around already existing Language Models
And the more they DDOS small websites — instead of respectfully scraping once — the more realistic my conspiracy theory looks.