PSA: you can ignore the entirety of the LLM-industrial-complex without falling for the “see they are useful for something after all” narrative:
- these systems are based on theft (some of that still makes its way through the courts)
- they are designed to centralise power in the hands of very few people who are also objectively the worst people
- the businesses are not sustainable, nobody disagrees the bubble will pop before long, so making your craft depend on a subscription seems silly
@janlJan Lehnardt 
👍 "Built on theft, with the stated end goal of enslavement", is my mental shorthand.
OpenAI boldly says: "Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity."
We're not at AGI yet, but if we ever get there, they want to ensure that _thinking entities_ will not be free. (Like Star Wars droids that are bought and sold.)
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