I'm old enough to remember when newspapers reported hackers being banned from using computers.
And IP pirates banned from using the internet. Actually, that one I remember I voted against my local MP after they passed a law to make that the norm.
We don't yet have a social, let alone legal, norm for antisocial use of LLMs; even with social media, government rules are playing catch-up with terms of service, and Facebook is old enough that if it was human it could now vote.
So, yes, likewise computers/internet/social media, being banned from an LLM if it's a monopoly is going to seriously harm people.
But that is likely to be a big "if". The architecture and the the core training data for GPT-3 isn't a secret, and that's already pretty impressive even if lesser than 3.5 and 4.
And IP pirates banned from using the internet. Actually, that one I remember I voted against my local MP after they passed a law to make that the norm.
We don't yet have a social, let alone legal, norm for antisocial use of LLMs; even with social media, government rules are playing catch-up with terms of service, and Facebook is old enough that if it was human it could now vote.
So, yes, likewise computers/internet/social media, being banned from an LLM if it's a monopoly is going to seriously harm people.
But that is likely to be a big "if". The architecture and the the core training data for GPT-3 isn't a secret, and that's already pretty impressive even if lesser than 3.5 and 4.