maybe i'm just pedantic. it's possible you could only build models like these from scratch until a few years ago for that reason, but isn't that an (illegal,unethical) early mover advantage?

to me ladder pulling would be:

- web scraping for model training becomes illegal, with heavy punitive penalties

- training models above a certain compute threshold requires government licensing

- expensive third-party audits are required before deploying models above a capability threshold