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Let's assume that these LLMs are very useful and provide boosts to their users. It follows that anyone not leveraging them where applicable would be at an economic disadvantage. Without opensource models, everyone would have to pay a Google or Microsoft tax for the pleasure of using a service which could not exist without our work. All code, writing, art, data would have to be continually sent to their servers for anyone wanting to leverage their tools. You might use a FOSS editor or shell but you are still sending all your data to Microsoft servers.

The ones in control of the models also control what sentences are sanctioned, this is a problem the more widely LLMs are used. To add insult to injury, while we are not allowed private use of the models, governments and ad-tech surveillance capabilities will skyrocket.

Do you see the problem here? The capabilities of opensource models are not anywhere near high enough to justify such a cost, now or anytime soon.

And it won't end there. As the march of progress continues, we will see the AI doom crowd agitate for tighter surveillance of money flows, limits on private compute, bandwidth limits to homes, tracking what programs we run on our computers, on who is allowed to read the latest in semiconductor research and on and on.