[generalizations]

> before corporations (and governments) cause irreversible negative societal disruption

I think the cat's out of the bag. These tools have already been democratized (e.g. llama) and any legislation will be as futile as trying to ban movie piracy.

[dragonwriter]

IMO, the regulation that is necessary is largely (1) about government and government-adjacent use, (2) technology-neutral regulation of corporate, government, etc., behavior that is informed by the availability of, but not specific to the use of, AI models.

Democratization of the technology, IMV, just means that more people will be informed enough to participate in the discussion of policy, it doesn’t impair its effectiveness.