zlacker

Everything open source = No copyright and ownership of produced models.

That's a sure-fire way of guaranteeing only Government funding, free labour, donations and oh so much politics of various forms. And I don't think the "speed of improvement" will increase, I'd say it'd slow to a crawl as there would be no money in it.

>>zo1+(OP)
Counter examples:

+ Stable Diffusion + Linux + Firefox + ffmpeg + bittorrent + plenty more

>>zo1+(OP)
Plenty innovations have come from state funding, like transistors, computers, the internet, and state funding for research still is the biggest by far. (a lot of it through the military, but still)