It’s amusing to imagine the oligarchs are going to anymore charitable than currently.
We can literally take it from them. I get why people don't like to think about that sort of thing, but... yeah. We could make AI a sort of public good and do something like the Permanent Fund Dividend or something. There's lots of options even in the "reformist" way of thinking about it. But we shouldn't be naive.
a ding to the social credit score but not enough for a drone or ICE team to be dispatched to your address. but that might change.
(Also... LOL.)
The binary thinking in this thread and the lack of creativity is just... astounding to me.
The Chinese models are able to distill outputs into a model of slightly worse performance within a few weeks of each release, and the same copyright exemptions which protect these guys scraping also protect China.
As long as their lobbyists don't win (and the deck is stacked against them, make no mistake) the future of AI is not going to be owned by the frontier labs.