alt Hacker NewsLLMs aren't making their owners money by just idling on datacenters worth of GPU. They're making money by being useful for users that pay for access. The knowledge and insights from writings that go into training data all end up being read by people directly, as well as inform even more useful output and work benefiting even more people.
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philipwhiuk • today at 2:10 AM
And rarely cite their sources, thus affording the author not so much a crumb of benefit in kind.
Except the output coming from an LLM is the LLM's take on it, not the original source material. It's not the same thing. Not all writing is simply a collection of facts.