AI labs hoarding 'god-level intelligence' while feeding on public IP sparks diffusion debate
karmicoder · x · 2026-09-12
A debate on AI development strategy: responding to Pedro Domingos' claim that aggressive regulation turns countries into "colonies of those who don't," karmicoder argues the real issue is that AI labs are widening the gap between frontier capability and real-world diffusion. Instead of deploying AI broadly, labs chase "god-level intelligence" for themselves while consuming disproportionate amounts of public IP as training data. The core question: what do individuals actually get back from brute-force compute?
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