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Particularly since their output cannot be copyrighted. A project that takes FLOSS licensing as seriously as Debian does can’t just throw caution to the wind and start allowing code with no attribution, copyright or licence.

For every $x of increased revenue that the AI company gets from their customer whose chatbot is being abused you would have to also use $x of tokens from the free trials of that same AI company.

Google is first party. The user is second party. Everyone else is third party.

There’s a lot more to semiconductor manufacturing than just the lithography, and there’s a whole supply chain required to support it. To replicate the kind of process nodes that TSMC is manufacturing you would need a lot of institutional expertise in:

• crystal growth (or sourcing)
• wafer manufacture (or sourcing)
• silicon doping
• process design
• mask design
• mask manufacture
• photoresist manufacture (or sourcing)
• photoresist application
• etching
• sputtering
• testing and validation
• wire bonding
• packaging

That’s just off the top of my head as someone who is a spectator of the industry but not involved. There’s probably a lot more you’d need to perfect in order to produce cutting edge silicon.

If this were done in the EU it would likely involve multiple companies specialising in one area each, as we don’t have an Intel or AMD with the budget to pour into developing an in-house foundry. I can’t imagine how much investment it would take though. China has been working on this for decades and is still at least a decade behind in their own silicon process.