The best case scenario here is that LLMs become easily accessible and are largely unmonetized.

So basically, like Bing Chat is now, except that MS should not have to reciprocate to OpenAI. But why shouldn't the engineers and scientists at OAI be paid?

nor are the models trained on things like news articles but instead look more like the OpenAssistant dataset

Why?

Edit: jk I’m gaslighting you because I’m a corporate plant. Trickle down trickle down Ronald Reagan is God

I'm sorry if I have offended your republican (or libertarian or whatever) sensibilities, but these economic ideas just don't work for a nation on the whole. Make your argument if you have one.

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I really don’t understand your argument.

It's probably because we have very different values and simply disagree on what should be achieved. I hold the view that intellectual property is a privilege granted by the nation, for the benefit of the nation. Call that socialism if you like, it’s in the US Constitution.

That said, if you really believe that it will benefit authors if the NYT gets its wish to expand copyright, you are just wrong. I will gladly flesh out the explanation if the logic is unclear.