I don’t think we can haphazardly apply history like this, it’s never the same, we just like to find patterns where there are none. The biggest harm that would

I don’t think we can haphazardly apply history like this, it’s never the same, we just like to find patterns where there are none. The biggest harm that would come from AI is ”everything at once”, we’re not talking about a single craft, we’re talking about the majority of them. All while moving the control of said technology to even fewer privatized companies, the printing press didn’t centralize all knowledge and utility to a few entities, it spread it. AI is knowledge and history centralized, behind paywalls and company policies. Imagine picking up a book about the history of music and on every second page there’s an ad for McDonald’s, this is how the internet ended up and it’s surely how LLM providers will end up. And sure, some will run some local model here and there, but it will irrelevant in a global context.