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> Company spends 100 million dollars creating a product

> "give me that for free"

>>atleas+(OP)
Correct, this technology is too powerful to be controlled by a private company. It needs to exist solely as a public good. If we're talking about AI regulation, I think the most sensible move would be requiring that all models need to be open source. Capitalist's lack of ability to profit isn't a public concern.

Some would also argue that it was trained on public data and should be public for that reason as well.

>>bluefi+2p1
If every model needs to be open source then AI companies need to be taxpayer funded otherwise they'll never make a profit. Until then a for profit, gated approach is the only way to build up enough funds for SOTA R&D

>>atleas+CR2
The R&D will march forward regardless of profitability, there's already been a ton of innovation in the open source space. You're likely to see less innovation with these companies squatting on their IP, data and hardware moats. Case in point: pre-stable diffusion AI vs post-stable diffusion AI. So much innovation happened as soon as the model was "opened".