Comment by brookst

There are three issues here:

1. Identity verification as a way to validate real-personness and mitigate distillation by e.g. North Korea

2. Identity veriiication as a way to limit model usage to US residents / citizens

3. The level of model which will be subject to identity verification, today and as time goes on

It’s a mistake to conflate the three and form a rock solid opinion of exactly what will happen from here to the heat death of the universe. Everything about AI is moving quickly. I doubt Dario would claim to have a perfect roadmap not subject to change.

My personal guess is that just like export controls on CPUs, this will apply differently to different regions, and will change over time. Especially with US political instability and increasing anti-science policy, I cannot imagine Dario or anyone else would want to surrender the EU and other markets to become a US-only company.

But whether I’m right or wrong, one thing I’m not is certain. I can’t imagine how anyone could be in the current situation.