[toofy]

this would be the opposite. the llm situation may be heading back towards something similar the church age.

the church did all of the reading and understanding for us. owners of the church gobbled up as much information as it could (encouraging confessions) and then the church owners decided when, how, where and which of that information flowed to us.

[nunez]

This exactly is the terminal state of big AI: models that only four companies can train (on datasets only they can obtain) who also happen to own all of the ancillary services for accessing those models (because most businesses are really chatgpt in a trenchcoat). Yet the world is begging and kicking down the doors for this, just like they did for social media.