Critics: AI scare echoes covid — frontier pacing just locks plebs out of top models
GlenBradley · x · 2026-09-13
Glen Bradley endorses a viral take comparing the AI-scare to covid restrictions: pacing frontier models won't slow frontier development, it just means ordinary users get models increasingly further behind the frontier. The quoted post quips that plebs may be capped at 10B-parameter models — "the 6 ft distancing" of the AI era. The exchange captures anxiety (and satire) over tiered access and a widening elite/pleb model gap.
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