This is meaningless fantasy scenario. A much better model to compare to is a medical one. Yes, the knowledge about how to perform medical practices should be

This is meaningless fantasy scenario. A much better model to compare to is a medical one. Yes, the knowledge about how to perform medical practices should be open and shared for the benefit of the world. However, laws and practices should be put in place to prevent harm by incompetent or malicious people. It’s not rocket science. You don’t need a phd to look at a deep fake and go “well, gee, I guess this could be problematic”. Did you see the recent coverage about teenagers generating porn of their class mates? Come on. It’s not about the end of world, it’s about preventing all kinds of harmful stuff (eg. above). You cant have cake and eat it too. Either you make everything available to everyone and wear the consequences; or you restrict things so not everyone can have them; or you make it illegal to use them without an appropriate license. The idea that (a), (ie. just go wild!) is the best outcome it naive, utopian and deeply misguided. Yes, it’s complicated; but the “Illuminati control the world” stuff is just crazy, stupid conspiracy theory stuff. Do what you want privately, but you need to be certified to have a business that can legaly run AI models with capabilities > X? It’s not outrageous. That all AI runs entirely behind the APIs of a few businesses? That would be literally the same thing, except you could choose to do it yourself if you were willing to meet the legal requirements. Like banks. Or insurance. Outrageous I know, but … that’s the world we live in, and it’s not nearly as “nightmare” as some people seem to think.