Sure enough, Altman backpeddled, saying he was “taken out of context”, and he was actually complaining about people running local AI models.

And why the eff shouldn’t we be running our own local AI models, Sam? I’m just starting to look into AI assistance and that’s exactly what I’m doing, because I don’t want to be nickel and dimed into bankruptcy while I train your models.

For years, the wealthy have been telling the poor to “get out of the rent trap” and “stop paying your landlord’s mortgage”, but now they think we’ve all suddenly forgotten?

It’s been a while, but the last time I checked, the Australian censorship board primarily limits works which can be sold in Australia. I believe that it’s explicitly legal for adults to own anything that doesn’t break any other laws (including decency and pornography laws, but those are surprisingly not terrible IMO), provided that they don’t buy it in Australia.

There are also some laws about using the postal service to transmit classified works, but I think they’re less restrictive; for decades there was a thriving mail-order pornography trade based in the ACT (which had more relaxed censorship than the other states).