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And given all of this, I think one way to achieve that is to do the enforcement of copyright that we've been wanting this whole time. Forcing companies to have to respect copyright and suing them into the ground would force these models to slow down and our expectations to be curbed.

Kind of incredible the author brings up the fact that ai companies have historically held back new models to generate hype ("safety concerns") and then somehow fails to acknowledge that they MIGHT be doing the same thing now with this "slow down."

This is exactly what I always try to articulate when talking to less-tech-savvy people but it is so hard to explain without them understanding what these terms mean, and why they should care about it.

the big tech companies overpromised, and like with crypto before it, they have run face first into the nature of the technology not it's limits. what it *is*, specifically. all their promises depended on convincing you it wasn't constrained by its nature it was a lie, as always