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I think a lot of people in tech are probably feeling something close to despair about what to do about LLMs, since it’s clear that those with power are not going to relent with their advocacy, and they have enough uses that they’ve gained critical mass, yet the harms & risks are so wildly egregious…

I think the answer has to be a multiplicity of responses. There need to be *many* alternatives, created by many entities. The answer to McDonald’s being unhealthy isn’t “make another fast food joint” — it’s getting rid of food deserts and improving nutrition overall. Give power back to the people…

If people want some of the things AI can do, have those technologies be provided by tools & platforms created by cooperatives, by unions, by universities and governments, by municipalities and by individual creators, or as open source owned by nobody. Destroy the economic value of proprietary tools.

There is a long history of communities effectively competing with closed platforms — and certainly a worker’s coop could make a tool that is better for the environment, better about intellectual property, not prone to hallucinations, and that has safety guard rails so it won’t incite self-harm.

I don't understand what you are saying here. Do you think a worker's coop could literally compete with the OpenAIs and Anthropic's on state of the art LLMs?

But you think a worker's coop LLM would change the state of the market sufficiently to eliminate OpenAI's problematic dynamics? Isn't it possible that worker's coop LLM could suffer the same problems without significant effort? I'm not trying to completely poo-poo the idea, but it is very complex...

No, you're right. The problems Anil describes are fundamental to LLMs. ChatGPT doesn't hallucinate because OpenAI engineers are evil or incompetent, it's just how the tech works. Having a co-op make it doesn't fix that