Emad Mostaque

They said it was due to political reasons because they didn't want any political content being created.

But the upshot is an entire nation was erased from the model and an entire nation couldn't get access to the model.

I think it's probably on some list somewhere, and then the bureaucrats said, or the lawyers said something like, let's just exclude it just in case something happens.

They've since reinstated it, I assume?

Yeah, it was like eight months that it was out.

And then, again, you have these examples whereby, like in Saudi Arabia,

A lot of people on this podcast probably don't like them, but they're a country like any other.

You can't use ChatGPT in Saudi Arabia because they're on some list somewhere.

They can get around it with a VPN, but again, when you have a choke point on the internet and the only way to access it is through a few players, they can decide who gets it, who doesn't get it, what the biases are and other things, and...

It might not turn out well.

Actually, the funniest thing was there was a period where they were trying to make DALI to the image generation software OpenAI unbiased.

So it would randomly allocate a gender and a race to non-gendered words.

So you type in sumo wrestler and you'd get Indian female sumo wrestler.

I just thought it was funny.

But again, they're doing their best because that's the model, which is centralized, controlled models in order to advance a whole bunch of things.

And then you'll always have a Windows and a Linux, an Android and an iPhone.

What's the philosophy that drives your development?

It's building blocks for humanity's, activate humanity's potential.

So if I build these models and I take them to all the countries and I hand them over, then people will build stuff that can create massive economic surplus, new jobs, and it equalizes the world.

Again, my view is the global South will leap ahead.