[Sophira]

Local models are a thing, though. You can run DeepSeek on your local computer.

Even if ChatGPT, Huggingface, etc. died, we would still have the models and we would still be able to run them.

[vkou]

Local models mitigate many of the ethical concerns, but that's not what the end game is.

The firms pouring trillions of dollars into them want to own their creative output, and charge rent for access to it.