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Lol, I appreciate your cynicism here, but I think it could realistically go worse than that: - OpenAI and Anthropic convince the US gov to ban open weight models, through bribes or fear respectively. Model weights become contraband, comparable to CSAM, because someone will show you can use uncensored (abliterated) open models to do bad things. - Duopoly firmly in place, the prices are raised until they become painful…
Interesting forecast, but it unrealistically assumes America still has soft power. The US international soft power wings have been clipped by an administration that has shown the world that since everything is permitted to the USA, its various coercive threats are vacuous; there is no one home, no moral metabolism. What is true now will not be true in six months. There is no diachronically stable counterparty. Instea…
I did caveat by saying, "where it can".
I'm very unhappy with what we've been doing here, but until you Canadians bail out of Five Eyes, I think you're still in bed with us. Nothing is simple.