I'm pro LLM generally speaking, but LLMs are the most extreme version of corporatism you can imagine. Taking literal the entirety of human thought and existence, distilling it, and reselling it to you piecemeal with whatever god forsaken manipulation that corporations are likely to apply to it.
Look at the political landscape (in America) today, and why does government fail to serve its people? Because corporations by and large want to privatise everything because it gives them ever increasing power over people's lives. (so they agree to destroy institutions that have served people well)
Obviously Europe (yes, not a monoculture) and China are not immune, but it manifests itself in different ways that I am not really qualified to get into.
> Taking literal the entirety of human thought and existence, distilling it, and reselling it to you piecemeal with whatever god forsaken manipulation that corporations are likely to apply to it.
From earlier this month, "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence":
* https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea...
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550 1700 points by speckx 9 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 403 comments