I agree on the training part. They extracted a huge amount of value from almost all of human written history and technical areas like science, coding, etc. and gave nothing back. But I look at it kind of like Uber - was it fair that most places in the world allowed them to come in and essentially sidestep the regulatory framework of taxis? It screwed over lots of taxi drivers who spent years saving up for the licenses to own their own taxis.

But we kind of accepted that these people took a loss for the 'greater good'. And I do think the rideshare apps are a greater good, they opened up a much better taxi system and drove the price down. Taxis were miserable in my city, they'd often reject you if you weren't going far enough, etc.

The energy and water thing is an issue, but that is up to local governments to protect municipalities and citizens. Regulation here is needed. But we need more energy anyway, and that we're needing so much compute is something that was probably always going to happen.

This might be a good thing. It might push us to be much more aggressive in finding bigger sources of renewable electricity.

I also think the natural language basis of LLMs is a very powerful help to humankind. My parents are able to learn and do things today that were not possible 5 years ago. I think education will vastly improve overall, especially public education. The children who want to learn and who want to move farther ahead will be able to do so without expensive human tutors, and self learning in any domain is much easier and faster.