OpenAI and most AI companies ahead of their pack can only exist in the American wild west.
Also, current generative AI models is more akin to a compression algorithm than real intelligence (that can invent and discover stuff...). I don't believe so many people drank the kool-aid from Sam Altman. Much worse is seeing people that spent their whole life in the academia unable to discern this silliness and jumping on this bandwagon.
I guess everyone wants that $1 million salary from OpenAI, or that NVidia stocks go high.
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Serious countries with real data protection laws would make those companies either cease to exist, or take many more years to get to where they are.
It won't take long(maybe a year or so) until people understand that they are building not an "AI" or intelligence, but an atomic bomb.
We need this though. This will enlighten ourselves more about technology and it's uses. It will also completely destroy most big techs, as they're all about collecting people's data.
I hope this is the catalyst that the congress needs to explode Alphabet, Meta and so on.