Yes LLMs are a beautiful way to compact knowledge. It would be such a cool technology to develop and worked with if it wasn’t linked to such a toxic industry
The people involved at the leadership, in this wave, or incredibly toxic individuals. When the leaders behave a certain way, it tends to be reflected by those following after - intentional or not.
- ingesting all the current knowledge without regard for intellectual property or the work of people that went into it; then
- claiming that AI would make all those people who put in the work redundant
It's not really surprising that when the sales pitch is "this will eliminate human creative work in all writing and illustration centric industries", people got angry.