The article talks about 'software development will be democratized' but the current LLM hype is quite the opposite. The LLMs are owned by large companies and are quite impossible to train by any individual, if only because of energy costs. The situation where I am typing my code on my linux machine is much more democratic.

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tkel 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Right, people misuse this term "democratized" all the time. Because it sounds nice. But it's incorrect.

Democracy is about governance, not access.

A "democratized" LLM would be one in which its users collectively made decisions about how it was managed. Or if the companies that owned LLMs were ran democratically.

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Havoc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It is democratising from the perspective of non-programmers- they can now make their own tools.

What you say about big tech is true at same time though. I worry about what happens when China takes the lead and no longer feels the need to do open models. First hints already showing - advance access to ds4 only for Chinese hardware makers

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ldng an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Terrible argument. They always could learn and DIY.

	▲	kqr an hour ago \| parent [-]
		... if they are privileged enough to be able to take time away from family and jobs. The current crop of LLMs are subsidised enough to make this learning less expensive for those with little of both time and money. That's what's meant by democratised.

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ares623 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They can rent their own tools, more like.

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cyanydeez 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The people taking the lead in most of Ai in America are bootlickers of fascism. So not much difference than China on a long enough time line.

	▲	Havoc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The US losing the plot doesn’t change the fact that the tech is fundamentally democraticism on a personal level. If all the frontier models disappear into autocratic dark holes then yeah we have a problem but the fundamental freedom gain an “individuals can make tools without knowing coding” isn’t going anywhere

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xg15 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

It's "democratizing" in the same way Uber "democratized" taxis...