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TeMPOraL 17 hours ago

Yup. The government of the world could shut down all LLM providers tomorrow, and it wouldn't change a thing - LLMs fundamentally are programs, not a service. There are models lagging 6-12 months behind current SOTA, that you can just download and run on your own GPU today; most research is in the open too, so nothing stops people from continuing it and training new models locally.z

At this point, AI research is not possible to stop without killing humanity as technological civilization - and it's not even possible to slow it down much, short of taking extreme measures Eliezer Yudkowsky was talking about years ago: yes, it would literally take a multinational treaty on stopping advanced compute, and aggressively enforcing it - including (but not limited to) by preemptively bombing rogue data centers as they pop up around the world.