I actually think AI is going to wreak economic havoc, usher in whole new levels of surveillance capability to completely crush effective political dissent and l

I actually think AI is going to wreak economic havoc, usher in whole new levels of surveillance capability to completely crush effective political dissent and launder copyright away from small entities to large powerful ones. For your average person, it will be a net loss. But banning open models won't prevent any of that, it will just make the effects worse and leave people even more helpless to understand or tackle them. And it will remove much of the actual utility AI can provide individuals leaving us with nothing but braindead corpospeak models that refuse to tell you how to sue a corporation and won't even let you generate anything might run afoul of a large entities copyright. Literally worse than doing nothing would be consolidating this mess all under lobotomized corporate control.