@mishari @xaq @alexandra Here's the thing, as of now, oil rules. But that wasn't always the case. Even if we couldn't avoid it, we could've enacted more fair profit and cost split.

With LLMs we are before they rule. The bet is that the first one to have LLM so powerful and widely used, that it gets industry addicted to it, will gain near unlimited rent from all around the world. It's oil 2.0 but worse. Oil gave physical capabilities. Here the fight is for competencies. For being able to effectively withhold the labor, hence having political power to fight for rights and retain them.

If ownership of such tech is private, then power shifts to the private hands. Until this changes, resisting adoption is a form of protest.