The Dangers Of Highly Centralized AI

Large language models are controlled by a tiny cohort of corporations

Clive Thompson
6 min readMar 31

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The new regime of large language models — used in products like ChatGPT and Bard — raise a ton of concerns.

For one, the models are prone to bullshitting, squirting out answers that are filled unpredictably with falsehoods. The models are also based on the mass…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net