The trouble is that it becomes far too easy to fall into the pattern of power being used to garner more power. All power needs to be held in check to avoid that very simple flaw. The moment the people are convinced that power of any sort shouldn’t be held in check is the moment that they are doomed.

It’s not the query that burns through electricity like crazy, it’s training the models.

You can run a query yourself at home with a desktop computer, as long as it has enough RAM and compute cells to support the model you’re using (think a few high-end GPUs).

Training a model requires a huge pile of computer power though, and the AI companies are constantly scraping the internet to stealfind more training material

“We have to find a compelling use case so we can keep tragedying the commons!”