Also reminds of people doing symbolic AI (decision trees and stuff) that kept criticizing NNs telling they don't work, will never be able to tell why they have this output (it's even wrong), etc.
They had some good points though. The article says that this technology centralizes power in the hands of rich tech companies who exploit low paid workers and unpaid creators who do the value creating work. The tech companies organize the data then endlessly skim off the top. At the same time they maintain undemocratic control of who can see what information, guided by profit and sometimes authoritarian governments.
These are all the same criticisms of the walled garden internet and theyre just as relevant for LLM’s