Could you imagine if MS had convinced the govt back in the day, to require a special license to build an operating system (this blocking Linux and everything open)?
It’s essentially what’s happening now,
Except it is OpenAI instead of MS, and it is AI instead of Linux
AI is the new Linux, they know it, and are trying desperately to stop it from happening
edit: Current models- sure, but they will soon be outdated. I think the idea is to strangle the development of comparable, SoTA models in the future that individuals can self-host; OpenAI certainly won't release their weights, and they'd want the act of releasing weights without a license to be criminalized. If such a law is signed, it would remove the threat of smaller AI companies from disintermediating OpenAI, and individuals from collaborating to engage in any activity that results in publicly available model weights (or even making the recipe itself illegal to distribute)
Embrace, Extend...
What comes after Extend?
In other words, MS with extra steps.
It is as if most humans lack an inner compass, a set of principles, a solid value system.
It is as if humans are robots, that fulfil their given role as if they were programmed to do so.
Our institutions, companies, political parties, etc. are these functions that humans slip into and in robot-like fashion execute their expected role like clockwork.
The free thinkers / big picture thinkers, humanity‘s heroes seem to be so rare.
I get they're excited they can make money off it, but wow, what a nightmare. I feel if they just stuck to their principles and kept it "Open" they'd still be better off in general.
Microsoft did influence government spending in ways that require windows in every govt owned computer, and schools.
OpenAI is Microsoft.
