You don't deserve the downvotes. But I disagree, I think they can stop it, at least for a long while, because of the enormous expense that it takes to train an

You don't deserve the downvotes. But I disagree, I think they can stop it, at least for a long while, because of the enormous expense that it takes to train and run these models (at least for now). Nobody operating in legal gray or black territory could afford to do this. If they use the force of law to basically block legitimate uses, it will slow progress to a snail's pace. Meanwhile they'll use the tech to stay way ahead in the cat and mouse game, so when somebody does generate something they can block it/censor it right away before it's able to spread. That will be good enough for their purposes.