And that's just one part of it.

Part 2 is all the copyleft code powering the world. Now it can be effortlessly laundered. The freedom to inspect and modify? Gone.

Part 3 is what happens if actual AI is created. Rich people (who usually perform zero- or negative- sum work, if any) need the masses (who perform positive-sum work) for a technological civilization to actually function. So we have a log of bargaining power.

Then an ultra rich narcissistic billionaire comes along and wants to replace everyone with robots. We're still far off from that even if actual AI is achieved but the result is not that everyone can live a happy post-scarcity life with equality, blackjack and hookers. The result is that we all become beggars dependent on what those benevolent owners of AI and robots hand out to us because we will no longer have anything valuable to provide (besides our bodies I guess).

makes me happy to read that at least folks are thinking about this stuff. to me, this llm replacing humans stuff is ridiculous because we really do have a pretty good supply of humans, whereas do we really have a pretty good supply of resources that go into all of these human replacing ai's?