The Pirate Bay is also backed by extensive research, implementation, and data preparation. I'm not dismissising [sic] anything as "a bunch of multiplications" – you'll note I talked about embedding in vector spaces, not matrix multiplication. (I do, in fact, know what I'm talking about: if you want to dismiss [sic] my criticism, please actually engage with it like the other commenters have.)
Development of a product like ChatGPT has been orders of magnitude more resource-intenstive than the Pirate Bay, in any way. It's perplexing how when some think of LLMs, they talk like they could develop one in an afternoon; it's specifically their complexity that warrants the question whether they can be considered transformative in nature.
