@sickburnbro @TrevorGoodchild the whole value proposition for OpenAI was that
- these AIs will captivate and control the people - companies declaring "We will make AI content instead of paying creators"
- they wanted to be able to ensure all of the managerial thought control from the "better men" would keep the people from wrong thinking, and control them on the cheap
- the important people would get access to the real/good AI which will do all kinds of useful things - the masses won't be allowed to do anything powerful
- the cost of making the AI was meant to be a moat to ensure a monopoly of control
how cheap DeepSeek was to make is less important than that the Chinese just broke all of these