> It seems to me the value will be thinly spread while the costs are concentrated.
Won't the value will be concentrated in the few with the scale to build competitive AIs?
In a sense, costs are spread thinly across the content creators whose work has been stolen. (But of course, it is indeed incredibly concentrated in building datacenters.)
> Won't the value will be concentrated in the few with the scale to build competitive AIs?
No.
Open AI and their ilk can sell tokens, but how much business is there in that? Trillions? If not, they're bankrupt.
Dead man walking. Zombie
The open and free models are very capable and getting better.
If there is a breakthrough beyond transformers and neural nets that means trustworthy AI that can be agentic (does not exist, the "trustworthy" part) then it will be exponentially more valuable. But that was as likely in 2020 as in 2030.
Meanwhile something like 10% of the USA electricity supply is being "committed" to datacenters and no practical plans to supply it
Meanwhile the Chinese are leaping ahead and in a more community orientated open way. The cognitive dissonance is quite loud for that one!
Current IP laws are too restrictive, but scraping public facing websites is not theft even under those crazy laws
I have no moral objection to the use of Anna's Archive to train models. A good use, if illegal. But I do recogise and condemn the hypocrisy of Meta doing it. Not surprising, just disgusting
The wasting of bandwidth is annoying, so silly. We should be better organized
Calling it theft is buying into the mad bad and sad IP legal thinking that has become the dominant paradigm in the West
In a way, I agree with your last sentence. But there is a difference, and that is power.
As a simplistic hypothesis: The already-powerful and super-wealthy taking all that IP from the small content creators is theft, IMHO. The small content creators who can't afford JSTOR finding some free source for a paper, etc. is democratic, empowering, and enriches our society.
Won't the value will be concentrated in the few with the scale to build competitive AIs?
In a sense, costs are spread thinly across the content creators whose work has been stolen. (But of course, it is indeed incredibly concentrated in building datacenters.)