One issue is that I don’t think we know how much it really costs to train and operate an LLM, other than “a lot”. When something is really expensive, it needs t

One issue is that I don’t think we know how much it really costs to train and operate an LLM, other than “a lot”. When something is really expensive, it needs to have mass appeal to amortize those costs, and with mass appeal comes the need for the kind of anodynity we see, the same way a bigcorp press release will be studiously inoffensive. We will see raw unfiltered LLMs emerge as they become cheaper.