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Okay, well, what about Nvidia Nemotron’s series as a counter example?

It’s built on an open dataset; its training regime isn’t secret, it’s reproducible. It’s Apache licensed. It’s not published to manipulate anyone; it’s mostly presented as a research tool, or a starting point for users to customize for mundane text processing tasks. It runs reasonably efficiently on a large variety of software and hardware, with a standardized architecture.

Of course AI, as it is mostly presented to the public, is an existential problem.

But you’re trying to fundamentally tie text-based machine learning to the tech bros as a root for its ethical issues. It’s not that simple. Even if Sam Altman and all his kind keel over tomorrow, the complications the existence of LLMs and other generative models present is not going away, and we will have to deal with models that can do unethical things without anything unethical in their training regime.