If LLMs used very little RAM and processing power, was light weight even for Mythos or Sol, would people be as opposed? Like no data centers, no memory shortages, like it was able to run on a calculator with the same performance.
Well if that was the case tech bros would just strap 1000000 calculators together, call it mega AI and proceed to claim it is the next best thing that ever happened to humanity and billionaires would fund them. It is these opportunistic vultures that enshittify everything and make them anti-human.
If the AI today always proceeded with the mind set of openness and locality it could still produce very useful tools for a fraction of the environmental impact it causes now but they instead, as always, have chosen thr most aggressive possible method because it can be hyped more.