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This isn't going to save you unless you're ok being a criminal. There is nothing stopping the government from making open source versions of these models equally controlled.

And given how willy-nilly they are operating I see no reason they won't clamp down on open source. All it takes is someone with connections/political contributions wakes up one day and realizes that open source is a threat to their power or bottom line and it will be declared an imminent threat with no oversight or debate.



They can try. Will the courts go along?


They're trying to build case law for this with VPNs. They'll likely succeeed.


The Supreme Court is captured by the Epstein class, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.




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