Mind where you put your money, if you can't afford to lose it
As someone retired from the front line of hardware, software and information management using computers, it's fascinating to watch the tectonic forces grinding against one another. On one hand there are the Big Tech companies that have sunk unimaginable amounts of investors' money into developing LLMs, and on the other are the largely un-organized but myriad people who formerly made a good living from wrangling information technology (in its widest sense) into solutions for civilization's progress and benefit. [1]
At this time, it seems as if efforts such as OpenSlop, which is after all only an exercise in free speech, are shouted down because Big Tech and its investors are terrified of someone blundering into the film of the market bubble, and bursting it. To me it looks as if "A.I." is in the position of Wiley Coyote at the cliff edge - it has accelerated over into clear space, and its legs are still making running motions, but shortly there will be the moment where Cartoon Gravity takes over, followed by a splat-shape on the floor of the canyon.
[1] There's also the people who generated adequate solutions for problems we don't have [talking toasters], and bad solutions to problems we do have [see El Reg, passim], but they're just noise.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
