alt Hacker NewsIn the early 2000s Wikipedia used to fill that role. Now it's like you have an encyclopedia that you can talk to.
What I'm slightly worried about is that eventually they are going to want to monetize LLMs more and more, and it's not going to be good, because they have the ability to steer the conversation towards trying to get you to buy stuff.
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One of the approaches to this that I haven't seen being talked about on HN at all is LLM as public infrastructure by the government. I think EU can pull this off. This also addresses overall alignment and compute-poverty issue. I wouldn't mind if my taxes paid for that instead of a ChatGPT subscription.
or more generally than just ads: make you believe stuff that makes you act in ways that is detrimental to you, but benefitial to them (whoever sits in the center and can control and shape the LLM).
i.e. the Nudge Unit on steroids...
care must be taken to avoid that.
Right, this is what happened with search engines. And "SEO for LLMs" is already a thing.
It's also inevitable that better and better open source models will be distilled as frontier models advance.
Enshittification is always inevitable in a capitalist world, but not always easy to predict how it will happen.
> they are going to want to monetize LLMs more and more
Not only can you run reasonably intelligent models on recent relatively powerful PC's "for free", but advances are undoubtedly coming that will increase the efficient use of memory and CPU in these things- this is all still early-days
Also, some of those models are "uncensored"