Truth always moves slower than lies and always for the same reason. Were newspapers a terrible invention for the people because they came with yellow papers or did the good outweigh the bad?

I think we think of AI differently at least in part because I don’t treat it as something owned by someone else. It doesn’t matter if the rich stop subsidizing it, I can and do run it on my own machine. Sure, I can’t train it, but I can’t code an entire operating system either and I still think of my computer as mine. There is certainly something to your point about biased training and the costs related to it, but that just seems like reason to favor open source local AIs. It’s the same reason I don’t use Windows or Apple operating systems – it’s terrible to have that sort of dependency and bias built into your tools. Of-course, I have to admit Linux users are a minority (for reasons I don’t really understand), and if all the AI hate basically amounts to an inability to run linux / local LLMs… well, I understand it a little more.

Honestly, good conversation. Don’t agree with you, but you definitely widened my perspective.