alt Hacker NewsHaha, huge, HUGE L-take. Go to any library or coffeeshop, and you'll see most students on their laptops are on ChatGPT. Do you think they won't immediately figure out how to use a VPN to move to the "better" models from the US or China if the EU regulations cripple the ones available in the EU?
EU's preemptive war on AI will be like the RIAA's war on music piracy. EU consumers will get their digital stuff one way or another, only EU's domestic products will just fall behind by not competing to create a equally good product that the consumers want.
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> Do you think they won't immediately figure out how to use a VPN to move to the "better" models
I think they don't even know the term "model" (in AI context), let alone which one's the best. They only know ChatGPT.
I do think it's possible that stories spread like "the new cool ChatGPT update is US-only: Here's how to access it in the EU".
However I don't think many will make use of that.
Anecdotally, most people around me (even CS colleagues) only use the standard model, ChatGPT 4o, and don't even take a look at the other options.
Additionally, AI companies could quickly get in trouble if they accept payments from EU credit cards.
Can you please make your substantive points without snark or name-calling?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html