How it’s price dumping if they give you the model to run free on your own hardware? Follow this logic, are not all OSS price dumping and should be blocked as well? I remember Steve Ballmer once called for that!
I’m pretty sure the digital lords like that proposal a lot. Not so much about the serfs themselves, though.
First of all you are assuming I'm saying they should block it. I'm not.
Seconddly, releasing the model weights for free and selling hosted inference are completely different markets. Open source itself is not price dumping obviously. But a hosted API can still be dumped if it is sold below cost to buy market share or squeeze competitors. Which it is.
I’m pretty sure the digital lords like that proposal a lot. Not so much about the serfs themselves, though.