>The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
LLM training—and the massive (potential) copyright infringement that everyone is engaging in to train these models—is the latest contradiction in capitalism. For the first time in my lifetime, this contradiction isn’t harming the workers but is instead affecting a segment of the capitalist class.
Not since the abolition of slavery has one class of capitalists required the destruction of another to modernize the means of production.
We are in for an interesting decade.