Large models are indeed dangerous, because they threaten to concentrate power in the hands of a small number of tech companies with the resources to do the trai

Large models are indeed dangerous, because they threaten to concentrate power in the hands of a small number of tech companies with the resources to do the training, and because, once those models exist, they devalue human labor. Some technologies are leveling. It may be debatable, but I've heard it argued that the musket was one of these. The musket was cheap. It rendered expensive mounted plate-armored aristocratic warriors obsolete. Down came the whole feudal hierarchy necessary to keep those horses fed. These AI models are the opposite. They do not spread power around; they centralize it. They increase dependence. So in many ways she's right. What I would like to ask, though, is -- instead of deepening the intersectional cuts that were used to dismember Occupy, what can a technologist do to both reduce centralization and increase solidarity? Is it possible to have a broad-based populism that isn't particularist? What technologies could be in its arsenal? Possibly AI (which is really compression) can be part of this if it enables offline, disconnected "compressed Internet"s to exist off-the-grid, like solar panels? How do we reduce dependence on the platforms? The different ethnic factions wouldn't fight each other if they were more self-sufficient. If they weren't made to compete with each other for access to a small number of economic chokepoints. How do we destroy the chokepoints? "Fuck your Suez, your Panama -- we have airplanes."