This is one way to look at it.

The other way is to argue that LLMs democratize access to knowledge. Anyone has access to all ever written by humanity.

Crazy impressive if you ask me.

If the entities democratizing access weren't companies worth hundreds of billions of dollars with a requirement to prioritize substantial returns for their investors, I'd agree with you!

How? You don't know what the llm was trained on and don't know if it has any bias. Imo llms are a disaster for knowledge work because they act like a black box.

Yes, it seems that way now.

The first one's free.

After you're hooked, and don't know how to think any more for yourself, and all the primary sources have folded, the deal will be altered.