The Dark Future of AI: Can They Tax Your Local Models?

I can understand that taxing the AI API usage on a per token basis or per million tokens, like that would be relatively easy from an accounting point of view. You tax the the hosting company. But what I do and what what you do, what we all do, we download these Chinese models, which are very good, very capable when, you know, from Alibaba or even Deep Seek if you got enough hardware or whatever, or the earlier versions of Deep Seek. We run this on local hardware and nobody can nobody can tax it. Nobody knows how many tokens we're generating. As long as you're willing to buy the hardware, are you saying they're going to find some way to try to like criminalize local AI? How would they even tax local AI? You know, not at first, right? They're going to start with the easy sources like the centralized AI inference, you know, distributors. Uh, like Anthropic. What about open router? What about open router? Yeah. Right. But eventually what they're going to do is they're going to come down the line, right? Like you got these second tier like Mistrol, which allows you to, uh, generate ...