Comment by dTal

Because the local LLMs available today are already fantastic, and the difference between no LLM and an open weights LLM is much smaller than the gap between an open LLM and a so-called "frontier" model.

It's important that people get used to the idea that your interactions with a language model are a highly personal thing. LLMs can perceive and categorize us in ways we can't even imagine, far more violently than the simple algorithmic feeds which have already corroded public discourse so much. LLMs can control us. LLMs warp the information landscape more radically than even the internet did. Even now you are likely underestimating their role in future society.

The principles of software freedom are becoming existentially important.