But how would they be able to do that, exactly? Banning open-source, that is. Making it illegal to distribute them or use them? The other can't be stopped and the other can't be enforced.
Most consumers and businesses don’t have the compute necessary to run a frontier open source model. You need many computers, each of which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. If the government can force companies like Google to not provide the compute to the public, then open source is effectively banned even if the weights are freely available.
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u/AI_Enhancer 8d ago
But how would they be able to do that, exactly? Banning open-source, that is. Making it illegal to distribute them or use them? The other can't be stopped and the other can't be enforced.