ChatGPT And More: Large Scale AI Models Entrench Big Tech Power - AI Now Institute

These narratives distract from what we call the "pathologies of scale" that become more entrenched every day: large-scale AI models are still largely controlled by Big Tech firms because of the enormous computing and data resources they require, and also present well-documented concerns around discrimination, privacy and security vulnerabilities, and negative environmental impacts. Large-scale AI models like Large Language Models (LLMs) have received the most hype, and fear-mongering, over the past year. "Opinion You Can Have the Blue Pill or the Red Pill, and We're Out of Blue Pills." Greg Noone, "'Foundation models' may be the future of AI. They're also deeply flawed," Tech Monitor, November 11, 2021 (updated February 9, 2023); Dan McQuillan, "We Come to Bury ChatGPT, Not to Praise It," danmcquillan.org,