[rajivjain]

One way or other, the cat is out of the bag and there is no going back. Remember Napster. Even if Open AI/ChatGPT is taken down, however unlikely, there is no slowing down the innovation that is about to transform our lives. This moment in time feels like early 2000s when Web 1.0 became real to masses and suddenly everyone had a use for web. We are at precipice of the next big technology cycle, and this is showing all the classical symptoms of incumbents fighting the inevitable disruption

[Loveaway]

If they succeed in freezing AI development there will be no APIs like OpenAI is offering. It'll be all closed doors. Huge Benefit for those with access, rest of humanity basically plebs.

[polski-g]

They 100% cannot freeze AI development. They might be able to freeze commercialization of AI development, but the First Amendment protects development of any and all code: https://samirchopra.com/2016/03/03/apples-code-is-speech-arg...

[rvz]

> One way or other, the cat is out of the bag and there is no going back.

As long as ChatGPT and GPT-4 is available as an API, the cat has been tethered by its owner and can be put back into the bag.

> This moment in time feels like early 2000s when Web 1.0 became real to masses and suddenly everyone had a use for web.

Where 90% of startups have just went out of business. Even if they are emerging, the big tech conglomerates will just out pace them before they could attempt to challenge them.

> We are at precipice of the next big technology cycle, and this is showing all the classical symptoms of incumbents fighting the inevitable disruption

They said that about FSD as well, IoT, etc. Yet none of that was trusted enough to 'take off'.

There is something in the way which separates the legitimate use-cases from the grifters and it is called 'Regulation and compliance', which eliminates the majority of short-term grifts just like the AI hype of LLMs on everything.