zlacker

Butlerian jihad is a good reference point. Something so bad happened that a large enough portion of the population was convinced to destroy thinking machines, and this no-computer norm was held in human society for a crazy long time (been too long for me to remember how long elapsed before Chapterhouse, which I think is the book where thinking machines start returning). It was a core belief of humanity that computers were bad, not a law imposed by a judge or legislature.

So say a US judge did impose severe restrictions on LLMs through US copyright law. The giant companies that are using LLMs will just move to another country. And just like tax law, others will be happy to have them. Would the US start blocking inbound internet traffic from countries that don’t have the same interpretation of copyright? That seems very unlikely.

The point is that the only way LLMs get the butlerian jihad treatment is if the people rise up against them. Right now, that is nowhere close to happening.