[notduncansmith]

That’s fine, but then we need to stop privatizing the AI. If a coalition of companies (and maybe government?) were to train open model weights, and run those models on equal-access hardware (i.e. all residents of the country get N compute credits per year) then we’d be much closer to a system where “intellectual works should automatically benefit society” — however, that is not what we are seeing today.

[gcp123]

Why? I don’t need to equally and freely share the expertise I develop by consuming publicly available information. In fact, I personally profit from it. Should I compensate every YouTube creator, author, journalist, for the money I’ve made in my career that their publicly available work contributed to in terms of my learning/education?