One thing which I'm not really seeing in this discussion: Is it _good_ that ChatGPT and AI exist? Yes, they're fun, but will they be a net benefit to society? Or will the internet just somehow fill up with even more garbage, and our discourse will get that much worse? It doesn't seem to me that ChatGPT democratizes anything. Most people won't be technically savvy enough to build and deploy their own models. In this sense, no capability is being democratized, but you're just modifying who the more powerful players are.