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> Either way, it's helping people. Wikipedia gives away your creation for free. The LLM companies do not. Google is operating a loss leader and not "helping
by themafia 1y ago
> Either way, it's helping people.
Wikipedia gives away your creation for free. The LLM companies do not. Google is operating a loss leader and not "helping people." In fact, quite the opposite.
- IAmNotACellist 1y agoThere are dozens of top-quality models with FOSS licenses you can download and run right now
- cheeze 1y agoCounterpoint: I'm fine paying for convenience. Wikipedia should still exist, but I'm fine giving OpenAI 20 bucks a month to make my life easier.
- crazygringo 1y ago> Wikipedia gives away your creation for free. The LLM companies do not. They LLM companies are so far. Just like Google has given search results away for free for decades now.
- strogonoff 1y agoSearch results do not have as chilling an effect as LLM-generated text, because search results are in essence links back to content (meaning human authors benefit from knowing who reads them, people discover who those human authors are, etc.), whereas it is not a thing in LLM-generated text (which may have occasional links back, but they are not complete nor always correct).