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Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing by dinfinity on Monday July 20, 2026 @03:08PM (#48983458)
> The problem (right now) is that Open Weight models depend right now on huge companies to spend billion of dollars to train and develop them, all backed up by their incentives and their state to support this, while essentially giving away their monetization path.

Imagine approaching fundamental scientific research like that. "Welp, it can't make money, so it won't happen."

There is more to society than capitalism.

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Re:American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing by jonahx on Monday July 20, 2026 @03:13PM (#48983518)
> Imagine approaching fundamental scientific research like that. "Welp, it can't make money, so it won't happen."

> There is more to society than capitalism.

I don't read GP like that. I read it as "we should recognize a situation of unstable incentives for an important outcome, and start thinking about other solutions."

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