Amazing how we quickly the crypto wars have been forgotten and the lessons not learned.

Begun, the ai wars have.

"But what about criminals?! What about terrorists?! Won't someone please think of the children?!!!"

Every argument against open source AI is moot. Outside of totalitarianism, you cannot control people building algorithms with math and software.

And even that won't work in the long run. People are not going to stop their AI printing presses because the Church of Venture Capital needs regulatory scarcity to command valuations.

> Outside of totalitarianism

The flaw in your argument is assuming that decision makers don’t want this

Ah. But which decisionmakers?

Would it be the ones that tried to backdoor SSL and encryption in the 90s?

Would it be the ones who argued for censoring speech on social platforms?

Do those individuals in both cases share the same political ideology as the Bay Area?

I'll provide a counter thought experiment. What if, a certain politician whose campaign was derailed by people who censored him and kicked him off every tech platform simultaneously... thought it would be very funny to "commoditize his complement"?