Did you see how close the non-sheltered available models come? They come quite close. Most people aren't even using them for this purpose, but they could, and this is our reality. This is why your argument fails.

Disagree. @lionkor compared them to a hammer, and @ragequittah is saying they're not like a hammer.

The narrow gap between downloadable and frontier models is tangential to this. If you want to expand on the "hammer" metaphor, the downloadable models are a small construction/demolitions firm, and the frontier models are a big construction/demolitions firm.

In this analogy, there's no training school or certifications for the staff either of them hire, and society is still working out what public liability requirements and planning permission laws are even though both companies are being hired all over the place, because everything they do was only invented a few years ago.

> big construction/demolitions firm

Like, e.g. the USACE

If the USACE was a private military company and local lords sometimes still did direct battle with each other without being told to stop by the king.

how do you think the states became united

I wasn't talking about downloadable models though. GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.9 are what I would compare against. The article mentions GPT 5.5.

So the solution is... giving up? Let the technogods do whatever they please? Because we are not talking about storms and earthquakes, but about humans in power.

Who said anything about giving up? And giving up on what?