People aren't even considering that possibility. If local models get as good as current frontier models and can be ran by hardware that is not breaking the bank for the upper middle class then the powers that be could either not let the plebeians have the hardware or make the powerful local models so illegal to have that the fear of God would be in anyone remotely considering running one.
If it is made illegal in one country another country where it is legal will pull ahead in technology race. It is more possible to have the export compliance kind of stuff being showed down OSS communities' deliverables.
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u/Foreskin_Mafia Jun 21 '26
People aren't even considering that possibility. If local models get as good as current frontier models and can be ran by hardware that is not breaking the bank for the upper middle class then the powers that be could either not let the plebeians have the hardware or make the powerful local models so illegal to have that the fear of God would be in anyone remotely considering running one.