The AI rigs cost money, sure. But no one is talking about regulating those. We are talking about regulating models, which do have zero cost of reproduction.
It’s like banning the leaked DeCSS key. Good luck.
It’s like banning the leaked DeCSS key. Good luck.
I don't think many people in this thread have the resources to run a frontier model in their living room.
It doesn't matter who can or can't run it.
They are trying to ban something that can be represented entirely by a sequence of bytes. An illegal number, like the DeCSS key.
The fact that money is involved does not change the free speech aspects. This isn't CSAM or torture porn. It's data.