Yup. This is why if you claim to espouse literally any form of egalitarian political belief while being upset about (open source) generative AI, I know you're a fraud/charlatan/intellectual bankrupt/ontologically evil.

Huggingface, Swartz et al have done more social/political good for this world than billions have.

Swartz died in 2002, decades before LLMs. It is distasteful to put words in the mouths of the dead by invoking him here.

Even local AI concentrates power in the hands of a few, the few who can afford the hardware to run it, and the few who have the luxury of enough time and energy to devote to engaging with the intricate, technical rabbit hole of local models.