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by adaml_623 14 days ago
Because they are selfish and would prefer to make millions selling to big companies who want to pay less for labour.
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I mean, to be fair, basically the only way to raise the amount of capital required to keep growing LLMs was to sell a story at this scale.

I think the real error was the notion that they could sell this story to investors without the rest of the population noticing.

Is it an error though? The general public has noticed, everyone hates their guts but investment is still flowing.
If they end up getting heavily regulated, then it's definitely an error. The Fable export controls kerfuffle was definitely downstream of all the hype so it seems to be having some impact.