Mark Little
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which is controlled by these AI companies.
So like governments will buy services from Anthropic or Amazon and suddenly we're no longer independent because the technology we're using is sold by a tiny number of companies.
There's an alternative to that.
Open source.
AI, which would allow us, for example, to, you know, a small little research team could use a model, not controlled by the big companies, but basically optimized for their purposes.
And
And share that model on, you know, and share it around.
And again, the reason the book is called The Last Good Day on the Internet, because this open source approach is
is a reflection of the original promise of the Internet way back when Tim Berners-Lee was around.
That alternative vision of an AI that's used by people to solve real problems is real, and it's there.
The problem is we're all getting distracted by the handful of men, as they are, who control this sort of very, very specific, narrow form of LLM.
And that's where we have to get our head around, I think, the alternative again.
Easier to, you know, think about the end of the world than it is about some sort of positive form of AI, but it is there and it's potentially in play at the moment.
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No.
Now, again, obviously social media can create, you know, very attractive experiences that like, like start, you know, slot machines, you continually pull the lever to see what results you'll get.
But we're not like addicted in that sense.
Like to say that we're the victims, that we have some disease, like an addiction, um, again, makes us feel so powerless.
What I'm saying is like, for example, if you get up in the morning, you walk into a supermarket or a library or a bookshop and
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