i.e they can't adequately defend their business with trade secrets.
Patents probably wouldn't work either because the structures are too easily recombined to bypass any conceivable patent that would be enforceable.
That said I think all of this is actually emblematic of a deeper problem with the space which is that none of the LLM stuff recently has been groundbreaking but rather just just continual refinement of a given branch. We aren't seeing evolution, just increasing either number of parameters or quality thereof + additional context. Which is why it was so easy for other folks to make the same progress in similar time periods.
Time will tell if we are about to slam into a local maxima or if someone finds a significant evolution or better yet stumbles on a way to properly combine LLM for context + NLP with traditional AI/logic/expert systems to engineer something that actually thinks and learns rather than regurgitating statistics.
For example, imagine that engines were regulated earlier, because steam engines could blow up and kill people. That's a good reason to regulate steam engines. But then we probably would have never invented other engine types like gasoline engines and jet engines. With that, we'd never have invented planes or flight, because a regulation steam engine would have been too heavy.
The only reason why propaganda is so effective is because life is so terrible. No one bought USSR propaganda in the 60s that the US was terrible because people remembered growing up without electricity. A majority believe Russian propaganda about the US today because life expectancy in Thailand is higher.
The only thing AI regulation would do is hand AI supremacy to China. This is the case with almost every other technological development that we kneecap ourselves with, nuclear power, high speed rail, etc. We waste endless energy on bureaucracy while China is building.
If you want a generative AI without any decency then make it yourself, but don't act like this AI is censored just because it communicates in the way that everyone in society does when they are not protected by the veil of online anonymity
In which case, it wouldn’t even need to be censored, would it?
But, in this case, as already discussed in other threads, why not simply transform everything people write or say? They still get to see what they wrote. Others only see a cleaned up and supportive of the gouvernement version. And to that on texts, chat, social networks,… everywhere you can.
And suddenly, you actually are in 1984. Except you don’t even have to send the police, or beat up people: they’ll all be deeply convinced they are part of a very small minority. If not alone.