Important Edit: Our existing energy production does not exist separate from AI industries. AI Data centers are built on TOP of our current energy and fuel production and they are actively leeching energy at projected rates that displace human consumption. Making them orders of magnitude more wasteful. Which makes this whole argument about corn and ethanol incredibly disingenuous.

Then there is all that we already know: AI tech oligarchs in general are the ones primarily lobbying and kissing trump's ass to remove regulations from the energy industries, and more wasteful and harmful technologies will be used to push the massive scale of datacenters they need to secure their unreal funding rounds. All this corruption is built ON TOP of already harmful energy systems and it's not meant to fix them for the better.

With that said: The corn industry in part feeds people, my country has a rich culinary tradition that stems from corn and it's derivatives.

Generative ai is wasteful useless crap. Also gen ai is projected to scale many times more just to become profitable. The corn industry already is. Also generative AI not only uses a lot of water; It uses an exorbitant amount of electricity and infrastructure costs, that based on the hype cycle for untenable and physically impossible "AGI" it will continue to ramp up more costs related to infrastructure and training that will bleed other more useful industries and infrastructure ventures dry.

Gen AI is a problem that is particularly capitalist. But there is no country in the world that has the socialist logic to humanize the use of AI. (Not even china.) Our reality is corrupt capitalist oligarchy and we engage with it that way. not in hypotheticals.

Open source models are the spearhead of a disruption cycle. The initial part of the business where corporations subsidize their costs and loose money to hook you in and de-skill you. When that cycle is over, open source models will become more scarce, unsupported and potentially ilegal, foreign companies that provide local models will become outlawed with the argument pf "security risks" and AI corporations will increase their prices many times over to allow the plebs access to their technology that monopolizes, centralizes and promotes government control and approval across culture and most industries. For this reason the argument of open source models is useless.

As a final note; The meme is too soft in order to be funny; A more accurate messaging would be that "the king wants to use the people's resources to have a mechanism that can be unnacountable for bombing schools full of children and funneling money into mass surveillance of it's subjects."