That concept only works if it's actually free. It's not free, it's just under new ownership now that it's been heisted.
And the bigger problem is that no one's actually going to make anything new that these systems can ingest. So we enter a cycle of LLMs feeding off LLM output, and a parallel decline in human cognition and creation. All for the profit of a few people. Not at all for the liberation of information.
I am feeling pretty liberated with my local Qwen, it can make copies of software, reverse engineer hardware bootloaders in a harness so I can get rid of ads and bloatware, all offline and at the price of electricity and my compute.
That, at least, is classic piracy for the sake of free shit. If/when that becomes the paradigm we're laboring with, I'd reconsider whether it was a good trade-up from people owning what they make to everyone having access to everyone else's shit. The current paradigm, to me, looks like giant companies illegally pirating open source software and renting it by the hour to managers who can't code, at the expense of everyone who actually spent time coding it.
Qwen has the halo of robbing from the robbers by reverse-engineering, but that only kinda highlights how fucked up the initial training method was of stealing everything.
And the bigger problem is that no one's actually going to make anything new that these systems can ingest. So we enter a cycle of LLMs feeding off LLM output, and a parallel decline in human cognition and creation. All for the profit of a few people. Not at all for the liberation of information.