I expect a negative response from markets as this basically means that the party bus just got pulled over.
Seems the writing is on the wall for increasing inequality not just financially but now intelligence and economic opportunity as a result.
This will be particularly painful for startups and early stage businesses / SMBs that will be perpetually a step behind (likely multiple steps behind over time) companies with connections (especially those that are not above paying for connections in the admin).
I’d suspect bans on open source models to follow, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it hits hardware as well to fully close the loop.
I agree -- this is big news, but the thread only has 21 comments?!
When the Trump admin kinda-sorta banned Fable a week ago, it seemed like it might be a one-off event: handicapping Anthropic because the administration has a grudge against them.
But today's news makes it seem like we're moving into a whole different world of AI regulation: each US model will have to be approved for release by regulators! And not only that, but the administration will whitelist who gets to use it "customer by customer." (Altman's words.)
This is the more dangerous part we should be terrified of tbh. Not being allowed to release it at all is one thing, whatever, just means we're capped at current capabilities for a while and things settle out.
The government picking and choosing who gets to access frontier intelligence is a huge issue and is creating the economic underclass all of us "skeptics" have been yelling at the clouds about since the beginning.
Found a startup? Well sucks to be you, your bigger competitors have access to more powerful intelligence than you do.
What happens when only the government has access to the powerful models, it will be wielded against citizens and non-citizens alike.
It also means we, the public, are no longer benefitting from the big infrastructure build out. The gains are going to be privatized, and yet agian, we bear the losses with no return.
It's enormous government overreach. A democratic government must not pick winners and losers. If they want to regulate the powerful models, it needs to be all or nothing. Either they cannot be released full stop or they must be available to the general public.
But I don't see it happening soon, which probably means it will be too late. There's simply not enough competent political leadership in the world.
Could US theoretically ban the weights from running on its own soil, I suppose this would just put investment more within other datacenter within Europe,India,Australia and if not, then models could be ran within China itself and even at the worst case scenarios you could use a VPN to access them and VPN nowadays are using Quic/http3 so it would be indistinguishable for the most part from other normal internet traffic.
So suffice to say I am unsure what might really happen to be honest.
- [ ] transformers have hit a scaling wall
- [x] llms are so good they're illegal nowAt this point the stupidity is expected, not surprising.
OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO
Slightly sarcastic, but also ample evidence and charges for insider trading in the US government this year
It's 2026 now, you can't pin your hopes and dreams on a random business that treats you like exit liquidity. When you pray to the cannibal king, you get what you ask for.
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