[simonw]

"It’s why none of these major players produce locally-executable LLMs (Mistral, Llama, and DeepSeek being notable exceptions)"

OpenAI have gpt-oss-20b and 120b. Google have the Gemma 3 models. At this point the only significant AI lab that doesn't provide a locally executable model are Anthropic!

[stego-tech]

Fair point, I’d forgotten those recent-ish releases from OpenAI and Google both - but my larger point still stands that the entire industry is maximizing potential vectors for lock-in and profit while spewing lies about “benefitting humanity” in public.

None of the present AI industry is operating in an ethical or responsible way, full stop. They know it, they admit to it when pressed, and nobody seems to give a shit if it means they can collapse the job market and make money for themselves. It’s “fuck you got mine” taken to a technological extreme.