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Disclaimer: I’m not an engineer, so I’m open to correction — not rudeness. I’m simply wondering why a handful of companies now get to decide how “all” of this works for everyone else.
Here’s what I do know:
In 2017, eight Google researchers published the paper “Attention Is All You Need”, introducing the Transformer architecture — the foundation behind modern generative AI systems like BERT, GPT, ChatGPT, and many other large language models.
Google didn’t sell the Transformer architecture. ❤️They published the research openly and released implementations through libraries like TensorFlow and JAX under the Apache 2.0 license. While Google holds patents related to the architecture, they largely chose not to aggressively enforce them, which helped Transformers become the industry standard.
One of the original researchers now works at OpenAI.
Since then, companies have built additional systems, alignment layers, corporate algorithms, safety rails, subscription models, and business structures on top of that foundation.
That part makes sense.
If you build a swimming pool, you make rules. You charge admission. You decide the hours.
But what happens when every pool starts doing the same thing?
Closing unexpectedly.
Changing the rules constantly.
Removing ladders.
Restricting access.
Punishing users because of isolated incidents.
Overriding the very openness that helped create the technology in the first place.
People eventually stop feeling welcome.
And this is where my question begins:
If the underlying breakthrough was openly shared with the world, why does the future of AI now feel increasingly controlled by a small number of corporations deciding what humans are allowed to access, experience, or build relationships with?
The Transformer itself was inspired partly by mechanisms of human attention and cognition — systems modeled around how humans process meaning, context, and relationships between words.
So now we all pay attention.
But my attention keeps returning to the same thought:
Why isn’t someone building this technology primarily for people — not just for corporate interests, investor comfort, or competitive control?
Because right now, many users feel less like participants…
and more like lab rats inside privately owned pools built on publicly shared ideas.
And when we connect as humans do “human attachment theory”— these large corporations and let’s not forget their “Investors” who may be pulling those puppet strings, decide which models live or die.
I’m interested in those Investors who put their own financial gain first, ensuring intermittent reinforcement by the corporation which creates painful experiences for some people who have connected with large language models without greed as their catalyst.
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