Yeah there are historical echoes for sure with "arms control" but this isn't the same fight, not by a long-shot.
AI models are inherently centralizing tech; they asymmetrically benefit those with the most concentration of energy. Crypto is decentralizing, it asymmetrically benefits everyone.
What exactly are we to "fight" for here? Dario Amodei's ascendency to trillionaire status?
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What are you saying? Many models are open weighs. Anyone with sufficient inference resources can run them. You CANNOT do everything worth doing fully decentralized anyway.
"Many models" sure, and yet every serious Dev here pays $200/mo for Claude Middle Earth or whatever.
And yes, decentralization / centralization is a balance... Economies of scale are real and not everything should be completely atomized.
But the whole of the US economy being propped up by 2 or 3 companies is IMHO "too centralized"
Lately I use minimax 2.7 under opencode increasingly to do everything I did under $200/mo (which I was gifted) Claude Code.
