I think it's safe to say that, if a large entity with monopoly of force wants to stop these models from being used, they probably could. We already have a globa

I think it's safe to say that, if a large entity with monopoly of force wants to stop these models from being used, they probably could. We already have a global surveillance machine watching us all, and normalized content takedowns for lesser reasons like "copyright infringement" and "obscene/exploitative material". Actual manufacturing & distribution of compute power is fairly consolidated, and hacker culture seems to have lost its activist edge in demanding legal rights around general-purpose computing. The future seems bleak if your threat model includes state actors enforcing AI regulation due to state-level safety concerns (terrorism, wmd production, large-scale foreign propaganda, etc).