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LLMs reverse the usual pattern of technology diffusion: they benefit ordinary individuals far more than they benefit corporations and governments.

Drawn from what Andrej Karpathy said

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    Andrej Karpathy 7 Apr 2025

    So it strikes me as quite unique and remarkable that LLMs display a dramatic reversal of this pattern - they generate disproportionate benefit for regular people, while their impact is a lot more muted and lagging in corporations and governments.

    Power to the people: How LLMs flip the script on technology diffusionkarpathy.bearblog.dev

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