OpenAI is now being deployed to the Apple ecosystem [1], embedded in many Microsoft products [2], taking up massive amounts of compute in Azure and Oracle Cloud [3], and has a former leader from the NSA on their board [4] so presumably they’ll pick up military and intelligence contracts.

This is a centralized system becoming more powerful at least partially because the economic incentives encourage that. Bitcoin has proven that a decentralized system can work and dominate if the incentives are right. We as a community need to work on this problem. Open source models aren’t a solution if they’re just being subsidized by VCs and deployed on expensive hardware.

Having a single organization, regardless of whom, overseeing the most powerful AI models will inevitably lead to more cultural and economical subversion in order to get and maintain dominance.

Many Bitcoin mining centers are adopting AI workloads for revenue diversity so maybe we can lean into that somehow. A tighter integration between AI and the Bitcoin economy feels like the right direction.

Bitcoin decentralizes money. Nostr decentralizes communication. We need a decentralized marketplace for all AI models to compete fairly and avoid vendor lock-in. We need decentralized AI training methods and deployment. Ironically, Google has released research in this area: DiPaCo [5].