2028 dystopia: compliance costs squeeze open models, vans smuggle local LLMs to the desperate
Bedrovelsen · x · 2026-09-11
A viral post sketches a 2028 scenario: AI was never "banned," but regulating open weights, local inference, and high-capability models made compliance affordable only for big companies. It imagines a black-market org smuggling illegal local LLMs from a van to those who can't afford a $200/month subscription — rare-disease parents, cancer patients, disabled people fighting benefit denials, journalists, whistleblowers, broke students. A cautionary fable about overregulation locking AI capability behind corporate walls.
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