Yann LeCun: AI one-percenters seizing power forever is real doomsday scenario

some speculators say we'll enter an age of abundance and money wont matter nearly as much (or at all) but if thats the case, how do businesses transition from their current state of profit over everything into money is not important?

I see it as much more likely that things become monopolized instead

It's too late for monopolizing large language models. The technology for making them is known and the cost keeps coming down.

There are things to worry about, but this doesn't seem to be one of them.

> It's too late for monopolizing large language models. The technology for making them is known and the cost keeps coming down.

Not so sure non-institutional folks can catch up.

OpenAI is trying to regulatory capture LLMs to prevent the Amazons and the well-funded unicorns from following. Everyone left in the lurch after these players crystalize is SOL.

You, average HN reader, cannot possibly compete with OpenAI. They're trying to stem venture dollars from standing up more well-funded competition so they take as much of the pie as possible.

The hype/funding cycle for LLMs is mostly over now. You're not Anthropic and you're more than likely too late to get in on that game.

The problem isn't seizing power.

The problem is going to be that AI is creating an Eternal September by poisoning the well of training data.

Anybody who has a data or a model prior to the poisoning is going to have a defensible moat that is not accessible to those who come after.