You prompted me to have a little sci-fi fantasy about a world where LLMs are exciting. It goes like this: imagine they were local-only, from the the start, and this was baked into the whole concept because each one has an owner, and it is trained on that owner's mind, in an intimate and slightly trippy process. None of its background information comes from any other source. It's possible to talk to somebody else's LLM, but this is rarely done because it would be awkward and intrusive, and difficult to interpret. Consequently, nobody ever dreams of connecting an LLM with any server. There is no giant ugly industry for training them. They are personal in every way and have nothing to do with the internet or any of its assholes, and do not represent some bland and inscrutable centralized source of truth. Their output always goes to the owner, is hard for other people to understand, and does not provide an opportunity to spam everybody else with vapid boilerplate. Now, I'm excited to own one of these!