Of course, we can trust the megacorps to keep our best interests at heart. It's a well known fact they always consider the long-term effects of their business practices and don't try to extract as much rent as possible from everyone for themselves and their shareholders.
The issue now is, due to the huge cost of training models, the forefront of AI is largely dominated by a small number of corporations with enough capital. They are already using it to extract even more capital, by selling use of these models which are trained on other people's work, largely uncompensated and without consent.
So yeah, people are rightfully miffed about that, and don't want this tech solely in the hands of and benefit of this lot.
The issue now is, due to the huge cost of training models, the forefront of AI is largely dominated by a small number of corporations with enough capital. They are already using it to extract even more capital, by selling use of these models which are trained on other people's work, largely uncompensated and without consent.
So yeah, people are rightfully miffed about that, and don't want this tech solely in the hands of and benefit of this lot.