> if you take away the LLM, all of a sudden you can't do any of the things you "learned"
What? That is absolutely not true. I've been using LLMs for language learning, math/physics, clarify home improvement best practices that I now regularly think about, etc. and that knowledge is not LLM-bound at all. Instead of acquiring from a regular textbook, I acquired it from a model.
You distilled it. That's stealing!
Bad learners copy, great learners steal.
Stealing is immoral. Sad what this forum has become.
You're in a sarcasm thread. Distillation is nothing like stealing. Distillation is what's gonna save us from mistreatment by would-be monopolists who "stole" everything they "own" in the first place.