It's not yet clear whether AI is so effective at actual work that it justifies throwing away privacy and even copyright law. But there do seem to still be open models if you think you need one.
AI is inevitable, for better (open, transparent, self-hostable) or worse (closed, opaque, cloud-only).
Once hype train vibrations reach a certain frequency, the topic they represent become inevitable.
Purely subjective of course, my vibration frequency sensitivity is not your vibration frequency sensitivity.
I would say that it feels as if AI is being 'pushed' far more than cloud was. Cloud services were made available, and companies took them up. AI uptake has a pressure behind it from the big players. Refer anecdote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44234139
It's a bit VHS vs Betamax, except it's VHS vs No-VHS. Playing on FOMO.
Regulation is good, it keeps actors in line and prevent cheating, but then overregulation comes into the picture and shoots them in the foot while expecting them to compete on the world stage.
Think balance.
That's why I wrote that we don't want to do that. But not doing that comes with a risk that we need to be aware of. There's two sides to the coin and we need to look at both before we pick a side.
I don't have an opinion on which side to pick, since I think it's one of the hardest decisions of our time and I value our sovereignty and privacy. I just don't know if we can keep those in the long term if we start lagging behind on a global scale.