The consequences are different this time because why?
Seems like an even bigger opportunity to inject ads, influence thought, and scrape user information.
The potential upside in positives is actually there. New cures, personalized really good medicine, breakthroughs in every scientific field, etc.
The people are there because they are betting on AGI, not chatbots that make software engineering go faster.
I mean, I am no LLM lover but in the possible "success case" there are also many many other cool/good to humanity use cases.
Whereas ads are almost exclusively negative.
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That will certainly come in time. We're already starting to see/hear the beginnings of it. My hope is that the market maintains competition because the moment one or two corps have monopoly/duopoly they will go full throttle toward that I'm afraid.