And what if the full costs are partially (or even mostly) externalized onto someone else?

They are not making any money because because the legal/economic/social system of the US doesn’t require profitability at this stage, that comes later once they achieve a monopoly-like position and they switch to more explicit rent-seeking behaviour and more direct corruption methods.

FWIW, we probably agree on much more than this short convo would imply. I am just looking at things from a different angle.

I guess this is a philosophical issue, to me it works the other way round.

It’s not the tech that’s the issue, but it is broader democratic social organizational forms that need reform to make adoption of tech (LLM/genAI or other technology) or a wide range of other issues a lot more equitable.

LLM/ML tech is the future, it’s not like the crypto/NFT scams, not even close.

In a statement posted on the site’s homepage, @encounter notes that while they don’t believe AI is the main issue in itself, because when used properly and ethically it “can expedite the decompilation process in a significant way”, the “community aspect of decompilation has been broken” by people using AI in more questionable ways.