I spent months researching and writing an analysis of AI regulation that covered open models in some detail, so please read this if you're interested in learning more:
I spent months researching and writing an analysis of AI regulation that covered open models in some detail, so please read this if you're interested in learning more:
It is only a matter of time before you and your company are affected by the pending regulations. In the future, almost all software products will be using AI models, in the same way that most software products use the Internet today, whereas they did not in the 1990s.
Imagine you had to license Oracle software because MySQL or PostgresSQL could not offer certain capabilities, or are less capable because of regulation.
Now also imagine that your products have to agree with the political world view of either Sundar Pichai or Elon Musk. And if you need capabilities only present in one of the commercial alternatives, you don't even that that choice.
Maybe all ML training and inference hardware can only be sold to “certified” vendors (for safety’s sake, of course). After all, since you can rely on the cloud, why would any one need on-premise, potentially dangerous ML inference.