So, big tech takes the "gift" of passionate developers and: 1. Use them to threaten their jobs (and so many other jobs like lawyers, artists, tech writers...). 2. Hoard hardware, causing prices to raise to absurd levels and effectively making it harder for passionate developers to tinker at home. 3. Set up circular deals between themselves to raise stock prices, creating a bubble that will make 2008 seem like a joke. 4. Close the models and refuse to give credit to anyone or be transparent about training data. 5. Hire cheap labor to label training data in third world countries. 6. Use their models to gather data about the users and profile them, essentially paving the way for mass AI surveillance. 7. Fearmonger about how their models have the potential to wipe the human race. 8. And many other wonderful things.

But hey, we're failing to see how AI is magnifying the value of "our gift". See? Little Timmy can now build a website for his dog with 0 effort just by prompting ChatGPT! Isn't that mind blowing? I don't mind if he's Carmack or fucking Leonardo da Vinci, he's legit stupid.