Aside concerns that this is not mature and may possible be built using AI-driven development. Does this not just put every resource behind a single point of failure?
This. I find distillation way more ethical than piracy. The U.S. already jumped the gun by making this stuff not copyrightable. We should of instead held these companies liable. It's not like the research they did in the process was for naught. They (U.S. AI companies) could of sourced legal material without stooping to the same lows that China and other nations are willing to go to. All in the name of a buck.
Anyways - I pay for z.ai, Opencode Go, Ollama Cloud. I love me some distilled models.
> People continue to criticize Arch for being elitist or gate-keeping
I have the complete opposite experience. Arch makes it easy to get in and get hacking right away. Their beginner guide's on the wiki were a gem 10-15 years ago... made it super easy to get up and running. I don't have the time these days to tinker - but boy do I love some Arch.
I'd suggest using OpenCode (via Go sub or just API credits). It will give you access to more than just one companies models and you can experiment and find one that works best for you.
I really like GLM and ended up subbing to both OpenCode Go & z.ai. Mistral, Kimi and Mimi are all also options as well. I have been eyeballing the Kimi Pro sub for a while now and contemplating cancelling my ChatGPT sub for it.
I would not benefit from an outright ban so that would be too heavy handed. On the other hand - something has to be done. If anything else it's proof the people do have the power to convince their representatives that these affairs matter and we are paying attention.
I wouldn't be to quick to dismiss this as only political theater.
Mental health is up there, but far from the most important thing we need to be focusing on as a society in the immediate future.
I say this as someone who has mental health issues, has experience loss of important people around me because of mental health issues, and probably need more therapy than the universe could reasonably provide me.
AI is directly and indirectly uprooting every facet of society. Money, energy, food, housing, medicine. Cultural revolutions are not pretty, the true outcomes are felt by those who are the winners and losers. It very much feels like a rich eats all scenario is playing out right now. I'd wager that's because it is.
Worth calling out that CopyFail can be trivially patched. I did so on my personal devices + remote servers. The attack vector is apparently only typically utilized for exploits anyways, it supposedly has little practical/legitimate use.
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