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> You can run open source models

Who can run open source models? Everyone in the world, or only a small subset of the population with access to computing products that are powerful enough to run models? Who builds those computing products? Where do their raw materials come from? Where are they mined and processed? Who manufactures and assembles the parts?

> (which are ever improving)

How are they being improved? Are moderation and data labeling jobs usually done by the same people who consume the outputs of the models, or are they outsourced for paltry wages?

> there is no moat for AI neither in software or hardware

No moat for whom? Can the data labelers above start their own AI hardware company?

> Look at yourself in the mirror and tell me it's not the pot calling the kettle black

So we should settle for inaction?

> By this logic China is doing Electric car colonialism

Where does the lithium for electric car batteries come from? What about other rare minerals?

> Bangladesh apparel colonialism

Aren't the people in sweatshops the exploited ones? And the ones who consume the products of their labor the colonialists?

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