probe ★ 3.0

It’s honestly hilarious watching certain AI folks accuse academia of elitism. Their whole gripe is that only a handful of people actually understand certain math papers, so having a small clique “monopolizing knowledge” is bad, and knowledge ought to be “democratized”. They conveniently ignore the large number of educators and science communicators who spend their lives sharing the knowledge. Yet they have zero issues with a handful of people monopolizing astronomical wealth. They are perfectly fine with the fact that tech bros hoarding massive chunks of societal resources and driving wealth inequality into the stratosphere. Rather than giving everyone the privilege of paying a subscription fee to generate a math paper and slap their name on it, I’m pretty sure most of the public would prefer to "open-source" the AI bros' bank accounts. After all, their fortunes were mined straight from humanity's collective knowledge in the first place.