Comment by stephen_g

I think it mostly just means a few hundred billion dollars of value wiped from the stock market - all the models that have been trained will still exist, as well as all the datacentres, even if the OpenAI entity itself and some of the other startups shut down and other companies else get their assets for pennies on the dollar.

But it might mean that LLMs don't really improve much from where they are today, since there won't be the billions of dollars to throw at training for small incremental improvements that consumers mostly don't care to pay anything for.