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1. chasd00 · 1790595720 · focus · HN ↗

   I’ve never seen CEOs work so hard to make the public aware of how dangerous and out of control their flagship product is. It makes me automatically assume they’re scheming about something else like regulatory capture to protect their market.

   1. lordnacho · 1790597540 · focus · HN ↗

      Reminds me of that Lynx deodorant ad where the guy is chased by hundreds of women.

      I think you're right, they've realized there's no moat, especially against open-weight models, so they are going to need to lobby government to ban any unapproved AI services.

      1. gorgoiler · 1790599367 · focus · HN ↗

         Doesn’t the “no moat” argument break down when you consider their brand strength, their distribution expertise in running inference at scale, and the future value of being able to train on all their customers’ data?

         1. lordnacho · 1790601168 · focus · HN ↗

            You can download some weights and run your own model on your own device, and apparently only be a few months behind SOTA. While things are cheap, people will pay for the premium product, but if they ever try to crank up the prices, there's a fallback that is quite competitive.

            As for training, sure, they can do that but they get distilled by the open weight guys. Plus, AI is useful even if it freezes at today's level. I can still find use for a local AI that never improves, it's good enough to do a bunch of tasks.

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