Chinese open source LLMs are an existential threat to American closed source models, and by extension, capitalism. What if all the AI doom currently flooding the airwaves is more about finding a way to legislate the open source models out of the picture?
UPDATE 9/13/2026
Somebody else thinking the same thing
Yesterday Glenn Fricker released - for free - the closest plug-in to Eddie Van Halen’s guitar tone. Thanks to AI he was able to extract from the band’s first recording Eddie’s guitar tone, not approximate it, or try to get close, the actual tone. Now every guitarist in the world can have that sound and again, they can have it for free! The implications are massive for effects modeling companies as well as guitarists.
I know it well. Cold reality slapping you in the face. No exit in sight.
Don’t initiate, just react.
Every word is an opportunity. The fewer the words, the fewer opportunities.
No point.
Had to poke around a bit as I couldn’t remember what the word was. I knew it well, could feel it, but for some reason could not recall.
Some other recent memory lapses include: Gunnie
Yeah. The world ain't what it seems,
is it, Gunnie?
-- Mr. Rate (Levon Helm, Shooter)
Who was that actor?
Albert Finney (from the movie Orphans)
There's only so much juice you can get out of a lemon. Once it's been squeezed to exhaustion, that's it. There's simply no more juice to be got.