> LLMs are not being trained for personal use, they're being trained to be sold to the masses.
Come again? Deepseek and numerous other smaller models can be run locally, for free.
I think what’s really behind this attitude is that “information wants to be free” when I’m pirating IP from a big, faceless corporation. But when it’s _my_ IP being pirated, it’s theft.
Yes, it's called power dynamics. You're weak and irrelevant, they're rich and powerful. When they do the same things you do, the consequences are different. I can make selfish decisions all day long and the blast radius is pretty small. When rich people make selfish decisions, or worse, when political leaders do, the entire economy suffers and in the worst cases millions of people can die.
In some developed nations, we're almost comically unaware of power dynamics, sometimes to the point of inverting power dynamics.
Consider a McDonald's employee versus a Police Officer. The McDonald's employee can make almost any mistake and it's not a big deal. Pickles on your burger when you didn't want pickles? Eh, you'll get over it.
When Police Officers make mistakes, innocent people die. Taxpayers pay out sometimes millions of dollars.
Based on that, you would expect the standard of behavior for Police Officers to be much higher than a McDonald's cashier. But no, we've inverted it.
If the Police Officer accidentally kills someone they shouldn't, they'll likely keep their job. If a McDonald's cashier's drawer comes up 1 dollar short, they're terminated immediately.
Very few people download(ed?) movies or music with the intent to distribute it. They downloaded it because they wanted to consume the media.