Things were already trending this way, years before the current generation of AI models. AI models just reinforce the underlying cause from a new direction: IP

Things were already trending this way, years before the current generation of AI models. AI models just reinforce the underlying cause from a new direction: IP protections have become effectively unenforceable in many (most?) research domains. As a consequence, R&D in many areas that would have been published a couple decades ago are now pervasively treated as trade secrets such that the literature has fallen quite far behind the state-of-the-art in some areas. This includes a lot of computer science R&D.