Of course not. The unfortunate reality is on average the larger something is the less it sees you as a person. Any large organization sees us all as walking billfolds. If they don’t see us as human, how can they keep AI ethical or safe?

The reality is they simply cannot, and won’t. While safety will (probably) be assured, because unsafe products bring lawsuits, unethical products that extort customers for money are apparently perfectly legal. We see this in pharmaceuticals, processed foods, and of course Big Tech.

If you are asking yourself this question seriously, I implore you (whoever is reading this) to explore the incentives the different players have in every decision that is made.

The fight over ai is the same fight as it was before - user control and freedom over the ai

I should have control over model updates, retraining, the training pipeline, the prompts... Everything. How ethical or safe the ai is is my problem. It's not a matter of trust, but that it gets changed out from under me, breaking my workflows, and not letting me fix problems with it that affect me.

Would we have had GPT, et al. by 2023 without FOSS?

No, and we can't trust it to big government either. This is my belief and fear, the government will or has already implanted itself with open AI exactly like they did with Twitter. So now we will have the most powerful corporation in the world secretly controlled by the US government.

Is there a lesser of two evils here? I honestly don't know, but I don't think we will get a choice.