Intellectual property itself is a bad concept. Capitalism works for squeezing margins for bulk commodity production (largely on the expence of the worker), but for zero-marginal cost stuff it's a huge hinderance for progress.
But if you have cloud based models ... same with mainframes 30-40 years ago ... it doesn't matter. Because the power cloud gives to the model owners is 10x more than the strictest intellectual property laws do.
I don't believe, for example, that there's any intellectual property law that would let me yoink my intellectual property from you for any reason after you've bought and paid for it.
In other words: I think the capitalism discussion is kind of pointless here. Capitalism isn't what gives these companies power. It's the cloud. Mainframe computing 2.0.
