Big screen? I have a large TV at home.
Snacks? Cheaper at home and much better quality.
Schedule? Whenever I want.
Lines? None.
Other rude moviegoers? None.
Parking fees. (This one used to really piss me off) None.
Driving time? None.

So, tell me, dear theater owners, what could possibly motivate me to bother with you at this point?

Oh yeah, anyone who's not as stupid as the average MAGA.

Can confirm. Am not polite.

And their failing OS business.

Because we need Bezos et. al. to be looking over our shoulders at all times.

Cool videos, cutesy chats, pictures.

Guess what? Nobody cares. People want actual useful, accurate intelligence appliances that reliably cough up the right answers. An intelligence appliance that can handle rule based reasoning as well as the fuzzy probabilistic neural net prediction, preferably one that can figure out how many Rs are in "strawberry."

Unfortunately, OpenAI is like most software development companies. They do what's easy and makes a quick buck, not what matters.

Cloud computing = someone else's servers = somebody always looking over your shoulder.

It's the security state's wet dream.

Eventually, someone is going to make cost effective, low power photonic chips that can replace the current crop of NPUs and GPUs. Then what happens when these things all become dinosaurs?

Explain the potential security implications, assuming there are any?

If you're prevented from leaving, isn't that technically kidnapping?

It's too late for that.

We can't afford to quit now. None of the world's militaries or three letter security agencies will give up a weapon that might give them and advantage, ever. If we stop, we've lost any future conflict that might arise.

Imagine a future in which the world is controlled by Iran or North Korea. Competitive AI is the only way to prevent this.

This is the real world of realpolitik and real military power. Idealistic pearl clutching at this point is just noise. A ban won't happen, can't happen now.

The tax, aside from lost revenue, are inevitable security breaches and uncontrollable outages. If a state actor decides to take down AWS or Azure, literally thousands of businesses would be down for an indefinite period.

This incident was nothing, a glitch. That doesn't mean the next one will be.

Which is what happens when you let MBAs make decisions instead of engineers.

MBAs hear the magic words "CAPEX vs OPEX" and their tiny myopic brains turn off as do the compliance officers with wet dreams of shifting liability elsewhere.

lt all works (with ever rising costs), until it doesn't.

It's just that the government is in denial and those geniuses with journalism degrees haven't caught onto the fact yet.

Just sell it the same way you sell human created software that has no benefits (e.g. every phone game ever made).