True democratization of knowledge would mean LLM's are open source and usable by everyone (the way of Wikipedia). Even then you'd want attribution to survive.

True democratization of knowledge would mean LLM's are open source and usable by everyone (the way of Wikipedia). Even then you'd want attribution to survive. Eliminating or changing the incentives people have for doing things is the absolutely surest way to change behavior. Postulating that all published work can be appropriated at will by certain private for-profit entities is the death knell of the knowledge economy as we know it.