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It could be a net gain for civilization if it stayed open, decentralized and off the hands of private companies, but that's not at all the case. Only tecchies care or even know about open models

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LLMs can be quite useful in reverse engineering - there's typically a lot of steps which are not really difficult, but are hard to script, and still require a bit of an idea what's going on. Quite a bit of that can be automated with LLMs now - so it's also a lot easier now to figure what your proprietary blob does, and either interface with it, or just publish an implementation of the functionality as open source, potentially messing with your business plan.

Regardless of open or closed models, the reason it is a net gain is that the cost of software production is collapsing and will trend towards zero.

Example: We can achieve more climate solutions (and faster) thanks to technological acceleration.

We just need to consume 1.21gwatts of electricity, and then we can invest in nuclear power in the past.

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