I have optimism for (emphasis) open source LLMs and maybe it’s a counter to the things he’s concerned about now. Now we can have inexpensive device, running an open source model, offline, holding a compressed version of human knowledge (some hallucinated), that adapts to the user’s needs, is ad free, has a Wikipedia level of neutrality, no tracking of the user or blocked IPs and maybe most importantly no other people within it. Some serious contraband depending on where you are in the world and a relief maybe? The organizations that produce new ones with warped bias still will have to compete with existing models that it can be eval-ed against.
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