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right, but ChatGPT might not exist at some point, and if we don't force feed the open inference ecosystem and infrastructure back into the mouths of the AI devourer that is this hype cycle, we'll simply be accepting our inevitable, painful death

>>airstr+(OP)
If they die there will be so much hardware released to do other tasks.

>>christ+b5
Perhaps not tasks you get the opportunity to do.

Your job might be assigned to some other legal entity renting some other compute.

If this goes as according to some of their plans, we might all be out of the picture one day.

If these systems are closed, you might not get the opportunity to hire them yourself to build something you have ownership in. You might be cut out.

>>airstr+(OP)
> right, but ChatGPT might not exist at some point

There are multiple frontier models to choose from.

They’re not all going to disappear.

>>Aurorn+Su
right, and the less we rely on ChatGPT and Claude, the more we give power to "all other frontier models", which right now have very, very little market share

>>Aurorn+Su
the companies could merge or buy each other

>>Aurorn+Su
This seems absurdly naive to me with the path big tech has taken in the last 5 years. There’s literally infinite upside and almost no downside to constraining the ecosystem for the big players.

You don’t think that eventually Google/OpenAI are going to go to the government and say, “it’s really dangerous to have all these foreign/unreglated models being used everywhere could you please get rid of them?”. Suddenly they have an oligopoly on the market.

>>Aurorn+Su
Yes they are.

It'll all be open weights commodity just like all Unix vendors disappeared