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OpenAI piggybacked on the whole internet and the catalogued and shared human knowledge therein.

That’s a lot of watt hours!

And lets not forget a gazillion hours of human reinforcement by armies of 3rd world mechanical turks.

Except OpenAI hasn't shared anything.

Sure. This is fine. Data is still a product, no matter how much businesses would like to turn it into a service.

The model already embodies the "total sum of a massive amount of compute" used to create it; if it's possible to reuse that embodied compute to create a better model, that's good for the world. Forcing everyone to redo all that compute for themselves is, conversely, bad for the world.

Nothing good for the world in this ai race but your comment is very good.

I mean, yes that's how progress works. Has OpenAI got a patent? If not it's fair game.

We don't make people figure out how to domesticate a cow every time they want a hamburger. Or test hundreds of thousands of filaments before they can have a lightbulb. Inventions, once invented, exist as giants to stand upon. The inventor can either choose to disclose the invention and earn a patent for exclusive rights, or they can try to keep it a secret and hope nobody reverse engineers it.