In her talk, Kalluri raised the idea of different axes of power. This book touches on three: knowledge, resources, and influence. As it stands now, OpenAI and its competitor empires have control of each of them: through centralizing talent, eroding open science, and sealing their models from public scrutiny, they control knowledge production; through hoarding funding, data, labor, compute, energy, and land, they control and diminish other people’s resources; through creating and reinforcing ideologies and producing wildly popular demonstrations that captivate global imagination, they command
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