"You are creating your cool streaming platform in your bedroom. Nobody is stopping you, but if you succeed, if you get the signal out, if you are being noticed, the large platform with loads of cash can incorporate your specific innovations simply by throwing compute and capital at the problem. They can generate a variation of your innovation every few days, eventually they will be able to absorb your uniqueness. It's just cash, and they have more of it than you."

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"Centralised AI platforms (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, etc.) train models on publicly available code, documentation, and technical writing."