Humans aren't benefiting from LLMs, only a few individuals are. Let's stop with the fake platitudes and realize that unless this technology isn't completely open sourced from top to bottom, it's a complete farce to think humans are going to benefit and not just the rich getting richer.

I'm not seeing how the benefits have outweighed the positives at this point. Spam, scams, porn, being inundated with slop, people losing their skills and getting dumber, mass surveillance...

Is that worth possibly maybe saving some time programming, but then not gaining the knowledge you would have if you did it yourself, that can be built on in the future?

I don't see technological advancement as good in itself if morality is in decline.

> It's humans - all humans - that benefit from LLMs

This is not true tho. The moment LLM will be necessary, we will all have to pay to the monopoly owners, as much as they can extract.

But, they will never pay to us.

> seeking credit instead of generosity, and/or Dog in the Manger mindset.

I have tried being generous to enemies. It only turns them them into... bigger, hungrier enemies.

I'm happy with never getting "credit" for anything I "accomplish" (whatever those notions even mean under a system where thoughts can be property).

I mean: as long as my labor output cannot be subverted to benefit hostiles even the tiniest bit.

> It's humans - all humans - that benefit from LLMs

The set of "all humans" includes that power-hungry majority who find nothing wrong with subjecting other sentient beings to sadistic treatment.

Those who, as soon as they take notice of me - or my kind, or our speech, or our trail - more often than not become terrified into outright aggression.

So far we had been protected from their stupidity and lack of imagination, by their stupidity and lack of imagination.

Now they've had brain prostheses developed for 'em, and... well I can't really do much for those who haven't already begun to reevaluate their baseline safety, now can I?

Corporations are not humans.

And while sociopaths - who benefit the most from corporations - technically are humans, I don't consider them parts of humanity, more like a cancer tissue on top of it.

So whatever benefit humanity gets is more than cancelled by the growing cancer.