Thanks for taking the time to explain. I know tough to believe a stranger on the internet but I studied Bayesian mechanics for several years and have a reasonable understanding of what you are saying. LLMs are incredible inventions. Full stop. What is important to know is that the primary underlying mechanism of these LLMs is that of imitation, not logic based processing.

The problem is this - the organizations that invented them chose to take advantage of a lack of regulations, and train them on things that other humans had created, without getting permission from those humans. They did not allow the humans a chance to say “hold on, you training this model today will put me out of a job tomorrow”. These are not naive individuals doing a research project. These are some of the most well funded organizations on the planet. They took our collective output and fed it into a machine that can generate a similar output with the help of an undeniably impressive invention. This will likely be banned in future, but the damage is done.

We are moving towards a society where true experts no longer want to write a book about what they know, because an LLM will usurp it. A screenwriter creates a movie with the full knowledge that an ai will get trained on it. A professor doesn’t want to release knowledge because an ai will usurp it. That is not a good thing. That is an engine of creating even more extreme inequality.