No, I don't want to live in that world, and I would definitely read an article discussing how to ensure we don't reach that world.

That said, I think that world is quite a few steps away from the scenario being discussed, which is "when talking to X, X might report my conversation to the police".

You comment elsewhere that this might be a have vs have-not divide -- if you can afford to self-host a powerful LLM, you will have more liberties.

I think this isn't that trenchant of an observation for two reasons: (1) the wealthy have always had an advantage in exercising their rights over the poor, but more importantly, (2) the capability vs cost ratio of self-hosted LLMs continues to improve at an insanely rapid pace.

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Hizonner a day ago | parent [-]

... and the advantage of the frontier models over anything you can possibly self-host continues to increase at an even more insane pace.

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serf a day ago | parent [-]

It's my perspective that open models are closing the gap faster than the frontier is widening it.

I'm not alone in that opinion.

	▲	Hizonner 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		By "open models", do you perhaps mean the approximately trillion-parameter open models that have been getting released recently? Because basically nobody can actually self-host those. And even at that size it's debatable that they're closing the gap. Talk to me when you can do it with a 24B model quantized to 8 bits.