So you are contending that individuals cannot run advanced models? What brought you to that conclusion?

Secondly, are you contending that progress in model efficiency and hardware just stops at whatever level you think is sufficient to prevent individuals or organizations from acquiring sufficient resources to run advanced models?

No. And that’s not necessary for my position. I have 4 Mac studios. I run large models and am building propelcompute.com to let people self manage clusters of their own hardware or combine hardware to run models. It’s not the models that are the problem. It’s that the people building them are shielded from the consequences of what they are building. I would say if you self host a model and it takes down a power grid you are personally liable for the consequences. I believe in broad distribution of AI and advancing its capabilities but not in a manner that socializes the harms and privatizes the gains which is what we have now.

I think it's more the noise, power consumption, local water consumption, and wholesale theft of creative works.

..."government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -Lincoln, Gettysburg Adress

Unfortunately for AI, it still is. People still get to decide things at the city, town, village level.