This will sound harsh, but I won’t sugarcoat it: OpenAI isn’t a charity.
EDIT: I meant AI, not specifically OpenAI.
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Envy doesn't create rights for oneself nor does it impute privilege to others, and people who read and write on the internet about privilege seem blinkered, to me, about how they'd sound to someone who walks two miles for water polluted by the mining of rare earth elements.
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I disagree. What gives you the idea that any software is a necessity? We've (modern humans) been around for 200,000+ years and software (and LLMs for less than a tenth of the time that software has been around) has existed for ~0.04% of that time.
Oxygen (in its molecular, 02 form) is a necessity. Water is a necessity. Nutrition of some sort is a necessity.
Pretty much everything else is a nice-to-have (with some things like money and shelter being important, but as we see from the poverty and homelessness around the world, definitely not a necessity).
I'd posit that LLMs are helpful and sometimes even useful. But necessary? I think not.
I'd note that I'm not dismissing LLMs, nor am I trying to dump on you. But the idea that any software is necessary is ridiculous on its face.
This would have to be solved by actual nonprofits, though.
Anyone can download a model and use it completely offline, or hosted on your own server. And there's a lot of effort to make these models work on devices that don't have much computing power (even phones [0]), which increases access even more.
Since this is the world we currently live in, what are you suggesting should change?