U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6

Good luck with those 1T USD valuations when your total addressable market now shrunk from 8 Billion people to just 300 million.

Trump admin just banned individual users like me from using it, indefinitely, under vague authority. When did we become such a nanny state?

Wait, what happened to wanting a safety first mindset and government regulation of big tech?

Please avoid reddit posts of screenshots of articles OP.

[dupe] Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678789

Honestly, are people not getting what's going on? The US is turning into a personalist regime, there is no "government" per-se, there's a dude. There are no 'rules' there's only the dude's opinion and you'll do whatever he feels like today.

The way you know this is true is to imagine The Others in power. Sacks used to scream about government interference, but now that he's running (this part of) the government, obviously things are different.

The only constant is that David Sacks (& co) always believed he should have all the power.

> We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default. It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.

My brother in Christ, then why did you (and your competitors) spend years telling the government you needed them to tie your hands behind your back? Did you really think they'd just give you a crown that says "Gatekeeper Of All Neural Networks"?

One more wake up call for anyone outside USA, especially Europe. AI will be weaponized, on the battle ground too, but the bigger battle will be fought in the industry competition. Those who have access to state of the art models will have advantage over those who does not.

Hopefully open-weight models will catch up, hopefully we, as the people, engineers will find the way to maintain those open-weight models on pair with the closed ones.

I try to be optimistic, as we won some battles, against all odds, Linux is flourishing, open source solutions are mainstream.

If true, I think Trump is nuts. He's alienating the very people in the Silicon Valley that helped him to win.

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Keep your **** models to yourselves.... the world really has moved on to open models which can give you good enough results at a fraction of the cost and zero BS licensing.