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> And don't forget that the chips it runs on are manufactured by companies I might not agree with. Nor the mining companies that got the metal. Nor the energy company that powers it.

You see that this is a non sequitur right? No matter who makes the chips or mines the metal or supplies the power, the behavior of the thing won't be affected. That isn't the case when we're talking about who's training the LLM that's running your shit.

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It's a good thing that there are so many LLM choices out there, then.

Maybe the fundamental disagreement is whether LLMs will be a commodity product or not.

I think they will be since there hasn't been an indicator that secret sauce lasts more than a few months. The open weight models are, at most, a year behind.

We're in a different environment. The last tech rules of e.g. network effect cannot be directly applied.

What do you think a GPU is? A chip manufacturer absolutely has the ability to add their own bias in firmware and drivers.

Care to explain how chip makers can influence the inference outcome of LLMs?

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