There’s still a fitness function based on human interactions with reality: the cost of running these language models needs to keep up with the revenue generated

There’s still a fitness function based on human interactions with reality: the cost of running these language models needs to keep up with the revenue generated. The revenue ultimately comes from the human economy concerned with housing, food, warmth, water, etc, so the language models need to cater to the concerns of the source of such economic activity by creating content useful enough to real people in order to cover the costs of production.