Does clean rooming also work the other way round? Where open source models can reverse engineer proprietary binaries, upon which one can make "clean" open source copies?
You make a good point. I read it as "people who aren't in thrall to the machine can take back control". The vast majority of people have little say in this show.
As @Quazatron says, those that are in thrall don't look particularly human.
The real bubble is not stock valuations but the inflated ego of an industry that thinks it is just one more datacentre away from computational divinity.
I'm aware of five eyes, but how would that make Proton not private? Simply stating "n eyes" and "agreements with America" comes across strongly as unfounded conspiracy. Can you be much more specific?
AI boom is a poor choice of words, even though it's intentional. And I don't believe the article's starting paragraph
However, there is a boom in investment in AI, whether that actually yields anything or not. I read the article as meaning derailing that.
The consequences outlined in the rest of the article look to be agnostic to productivity