[cicloid]

That ship has already shipped.

Even if they are able to put some control on commercial offerings, open source or available to the public models will be around.

See the behavior around Llama when it first launched. I expect an underground movement around LLM’s similar in vibes to the cracker/hacker scene of the 90’s.

[HeatrayEnjoyer]

Existing models will persist, but I do not see a timeline where R&D and deployment of extremely powerful (GPT-5/6+) models do not receive the same comprehensive scrutiny as the R&D and deployment of fusion weapon systems.

Creating these models require tens or hundreds of billions of dollars and buildings full of high end hardware that is only produced in one or two locations in the world. You can't hide that from world governments like 90s nerds hiding their pirated Playboy scans.