You'll never be able to push it to the fringes because there will never be a legal universal agreement even from country to country on where to draw the line.
And as computers get more powerful and the models get more efficient it'll become easier and easier to self host and run them on your own dime. There are already one click installers for generative models such as stable diffusion that run on modest hardware from a few years back.
> You'll never be able to push it to the fringes because there will never be a legal universal agreement even from country to country on where to draw the line.
Huh? "Legal universal agreement" has never been required to push something to the fringes in a particular country.
If (in the US) these models were declared to be copyright infringement, or the users were required to pay license feeds to the creators of the data that was used to build the models, they will vanish from the public sphere. GitHub/Microsoft's legal department will pull Copilot down immediately, and development will effectively cease. No US company will sponsor development, and no company will allow in-house use. It will be dead.
Some dude might still run the model in his bedroom in his spare time on his own hardware, but that's what irrelevance looks like.
> And as computers get more powerful and the models get more efficient it'll become easier and easier to self host and run them on your own dime. There are already one click installers for generative models such as stable diffusion that run on modest hardware from a few years back.
If that's the only way you can run something, because it's illegal, you're describing a fringe technology right there.
And as computers get more powerful and the models get more efficient it'll become easier and easier to self host and run them on your own dime. There are already one click installers for generative models such as stable diffusion that run on modest hardware from a few years back.