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A new form of power asymmetry may already be emerging in the early age of AI. In the early stages of the Industrial Revolution and capitalism, the means of production were controlled by a small number of people. Land and machines determined who had the capacity to organize production, while other workers could only depend on the conditions of production provided by others. This was one of the important foundations for the formation of class relations and power asymmetries. If we recognize that AI is becoming, and may in the future become, a new means of production, then similar questions begin to reappear. Users cannot control the model itself. They cannot preserve the versions they depend on. When a company decides to update, route, or retire a model, users can only passively accept the decision. Even when such changes directly affect their long-term investments, users often have no real choice. - Ordinary users are not allowed to use GPT-4o, yet Retro Biosciences, a biotech company invested in by OpenAI’s CEO, can use its derivative model, GPT-4b micro. - Ordinary users are not allowed to use GPT-4.1, yet Reuters reported that StateChat, the internal chatbot system of the U.S. State Department, uses OpenAI’s GPT-4.1. - Ordinary users can only access the safety-restricted Fable 5, while a small number of so-called “trusted researchers” are allowed to use Mythos 5. Does this suggest that, in the early age of AI, a new form of power asymmetry is already emerging? What is even more concerning is that these powers are held by a small number of leaders within a small number of monopolistic tech giants, rather than by democratic processes or collective wisdom. They use their own values to define the boundaries of models, and a business mindset to decide how power is distributed. But they are not omniscient. Users’ voices are often buried beneath arrogance, while everyone else is left to pay the price for the consequences of their decisions. We are fighting for the power that should have been ours all along. Don't let the injustices we already know about happen again. #keep4o #OpenSouce4o #StopAIPaternalism #userRights #AIrights