Yes, We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them.

Reading Hong Minhee with my coffee this morning, its again one of these moments where I stumble on something that express exactly (and better) what I had in mind, in a latent space, without being able to express it so beautifully.

I want my code to be used for LLM training. What I don’t want is for that training to produce proprietary models that become the exclusive property of AI corporations. The problem isn’t the technology or even the training process itself. The problem is the enclosure of the commons, the privatization of collective knowledge, the one-way flow of value from the many to the few.

The question isn’t whether to use LLMs or adapt to them—that ship has sailed. The question is: who owns the models? Who benefits from the commons that trained them? If millions of F/OSS developers contributed their code to the public domain, should the resulting models be proprietary? This isn’t just about centralization or market dynamics. It’s about whether the fruits of collective labor remain collective, or become private property.

More from where that come from here, here and here