> You rent your ISP line. Why isn't renting GPU compute seen the same way?

Is it mostly seen the same way. What is unacceptable is removing the freedom (which you mentioned) of people who prefer to run models locally.

Just as people have the right to tinker at home with DIY and electronics, fully knowing they won't compete with the latest ASML machine, people are free to use open-weight models at home.

BTW Minimax H3 running local can generate amazing short vids quite fast: about 50 seconds to generate a 7 seconds vids on a 4090 (depending on the settings). I've got a friend who spams my Telegram daily with such (no censorship and NSFW btw) vids.

I don't run local but I'll defend the rights of people who want the freedom to do so and I won't look down at them from my high-horse talking about "electricity" and "productivity".