NO

Good Morning I’m not sure we’ll ever catch up with demand again… Considering they wanna sell ai as a saas… It makes a lot of sense to froce supply chain shortages to force the majority to use the ai saas…

I think if they get the lead the local models might dry up

No, its not bad. Honestly, is USA or for eg Poland commie or not? What are the difference?

Na... they're commie in name only. That is, the means of production aren't owned by the public; but owned privately at the pleasure of the state. That's more fascist than commie; but ya, that pretty much describes both them and us.

One useful point: the genies are already out. DeepSeek and Qwen release open weights you can download and run forever, so no supply crunch or SaaS pricing can take them back. Open weights are the real hedge here, not who wins the benchmark race.

Yes, I feel like you're doing the equivalent of asking if it's okay for a child to accept candy from a child abuser, or to accept free samples from a drug dealer, only where the child abuser/drug dealer is an explicitly authoritarian government with a long history of doing the most terrible things t...

I think the open source model (including money) is the only way this doesn't all end up in dystopia. The Chinese don't recognise intellectual property. Communism is just how they manage their NPC's & local threats (dissenters). The West hides behind democracy & pretends like we have free markets...