without the pedo-in-chief getting his cut

Anthropic's and OpenAI's stupid models are not going to end the world, and they are not so good that they need to be reviewed as national security threats. Trump and his friends are insanely long the AI trade, and are inflating the importance of these two companies, which both have a pretty high chance of failing. These stories are really press releases to inflate the value of these two companies and their entire ecosystems in order to push stock prices and raise more money at higher valuations for the two major LLMs and xAI, Musk's steaming pile of garbage. This is a pump and dump.

Predictive models, which are what Anthropic and OpenAI produce, are also not Artificial Intelligence. They are predictive models. This is relatively mature technology that is still very glitchy and simply does not work. I have spent decades in the IT industry, and it is supposed to improve efficiency and accuracy, but the LLM's seem to do the opposite.

While Trump hinders the whole US AI industry and puts the thumb on the scales for his favorites, China is rocketing ahead with open source AI instances that are pulling the rug out from under the US frontier companies. Does anyone think that the Trump administration has enough smarts to accurately and quickly deter the ‘safety’ of AI models? Oversight is required but Trump and his minions are bungling it. As expected.

And if it can be guard railed to be safe then maybe the little guy can get fable so he can compete with these big corporations. You know the thing about closing the gap between the super rich and the little guy we support.

These models belong in the hands of the common man just like the internet does 30 years ago.

The internet isn't going away
and a.i isn't going away

Both are tools and the little guy needs them.

those workers and was never intended to. It's always been about tech lords stealing the world's intellectual property and extracting its value for themselves, while at the same time extracting more and more data via their technology, to be used or sold to others for more targeting and exploitation of those individuals.

It's about replacing workers as much as possible, not helping them.

The only reason so many people already have any access to genAI is that the AI companies are losing money on it, heavily subsidizing its use, in the hope of getting individuals and businesses so dependent on it - so hooked on it - that they'll pay much more to continue to use it when the prices are raised to at least let the AI companies break even. But critics of genAI's terrible business model, critics including Ed Zitron, have pointed out there's no evidence individuals or companies are willing to pay the true cost of AI, and there's no sign those costs will become much lower for the AI companies.

It's a bubble maintained so far by hype and circular financing.

And by AI bros and some venture capitalists continuing to hope that somehow, in the near future, this badly flawed, hallucinating tech will morph into superintelligent AGI, with godlike powers, that will be so grateful to the AI bros and VCs that brought it to life that it will reward them with the much greater power and wealth they're dreaming of, and even immortality.

And in the meantime there's very flawed tech that's basically a fancy autocomplete that isn't conscious and isn't intelligent and only looks as impressive as it does because the AI bros stole the world's intellectual property to increase the odds that this mindless software will give a correct answer often enough to impress people who ignore all the failures.

GenAI is tech to help the elite by making human workers less and less necessary. Silicon Valley isn't dreaming of one-person unicorns, billion-dollar companies with just the owner/CEO and no human employees at all, because they want to help workers.

Everyone else loses.