What about future models with fewer artifacts that are much easier to communicate with and better at generation? Opportunity costs might favor just sending your data to and paying corps with compliance guarantees than spend time fiddling with 2022 era diffusion models. And don't forget this affects 3D, video snippets and music going forward.

> that many companies will, ironically, use "ethical" as a pretext to not be open.

Yes, weaponized ethics as sleight of hand for control is a common historical pattern.