Yet this private company has more power and influence than most countries. And there are several such companies. We already live in sci fi corporate dystopia, we just haven't fully realised it yet.
Often the same people who think America is fine and safe are the ones who whine about the “main stream media” and “sheeple”.
In practice, there's not that much difference between a megacorporate monopolist and a state.
No matter if we want it or not, life and cultural exchange increasingly happens on Tiktok, Instagram and the like. One thing that all those platforms have in common is that they disallow their users worldwide to have any meaningful discourse on e.g. sex, rape, and suicide. Don't you think that it's important, perhaps more important than ever before, for teenagers to be able to inform themselves about these topics?
I would put individuals using language models for their own purposes pretty low on my list of things that can cause societal harm.
> Not everything is a conspiracy.
No one said it was