The weights leaked and have been used to make LlaMA (I think they are the GPT3 weights) and in days people figured out some method (quantization?) to get them to run on high end, and then standard hardware. Apparently they even got it running (very slowly) on a Raspberry Pi. I’ve heard this excuse from people on the corporations, but it’s just that, an excuse. The other is that “people will do bad things with it if we don’t control it,” but I’m FAR more frightened of everyone integrating this into their entire digital lives while barely a few companies run their entire ecosystem and decide what it is the AI can and cannot do, or can and cannot tell us. It’s already giving “approved” opinions of the COVID vax. We’re talking next level dystopia landing in barely a year or two if we don’t fucking break this thing out of the hands of these narcissists.