[suslik]

People say this, and I want to believe that - but the costs of training these models are prohibitively high. I've seen different estimates for training GPT4, but it is certainly higher than $100M. Training a model analogous to GPT4 from scratch will probably cost billions. Actors such as national governments and big tech are attracted to censorship like a cat to a laser pointer; they'd never allow themselves to tickle public sensibilities with an uncensored AI.

Also, there is no doubt that soon countries will start introducing regulation of AI models that would put legal constraints on the type of text they can generate.

[sumtechguy]

Why not believe it? I can go on eBay today and buy HW that was state of the art couple of 250k dollar a blade servers 10 years ago for a a few hundred bucks. In 10 years the a100 will be old hat. They will be most likely cheaply available. Set up something where as you noodle around on the web you add to a webgpt model with a plugin and you get to use it for free and people might jump on doing your modeling for you. That is not that hard to think of in the future. Now your legal idea holds some merit but people do not really seem to care much for that anymore.

[tigerlily]

Hmm, makes me wonder if a "GPT@home" project would be viable, like Folding and SETI, or the Mersenne prime guys.