The history of generative AI begins with a betrayal.
OpenAI, meant to give developers a high and rising model for AI development, went closed source and got into bed with Microsoft. Now Microsoft is leading the charge to regulate AI, raising costs for competitors and creating closed source lock-in. The company wants licensing for all AI, bureaucratic delays before anyone or anything can compete with its proprietary offerings.
The current listing for the Google AI page claims it offers an “ecosystem of open-source tools, datasets, APIs and more.” But open source is never mentioned on the page itself. Google, like Microsoft, now thinks AI is too dangerous to be put into the community’s hands.
If it’s that dangerous, guys, then ban it. Forbid machine learning, forbid progress. If code exists, someone will try to misuse it. That’s part of the law of code. The only answer is for code not to exist.
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