[drvdevd]

I think I agree with you on how I felt at the end of the post, but at the beginning and most of the way through, I found myself generally agreeing. But I want to look past the “bitcoin” switch after the bait because I generally agree with the author on most points.

Especially as I have delved more into how LLMs actually function and are trained, a lot of the magic in e.g. ChatGPT has evaporated for me, but in a good way. The performance of larger models like GPT-3.5 or 4 is still consistently impressive, to me, but as I’ve increased my understanding I do believe that censorship poses a greater threat than the models themselves.

[uptime]

Yes - and I would expand “censorship” to “control”. We have been shaped by whomever has built the algos for google, fb, twitter, etc and while that itself doesn’t make them evil they need to be evaluated somehow. I think the LLM fear comes when the creators tell us a full evaluation is impossible, etc.