Comment by toomuchtodo

Legal risk from Microsoft and other game makers. Path to success will have to be self hosted open weights imho. Big Tech wants a monopoly on AI revenue, they do not want people cloning what they're gating with IP for enterprise value and cashflows.

I believe games is the easy target, but only the first, from a reverse engineering, decomp, and re implementation perspective. They will eventually come for anything that enables rapid, efficient, and effective trivial re implementation.

Remade: Everything can be remade. Discover independent software reimplementations. Request the software you want to see remade next. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48789317]; not identical of course, but I see the issues somewhat intertwined as it relates to the tension of knowledge and compute freedom vs capital demand for monopolies and moats via copyright and intellectual property regimes)