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"can you write the rules down so i know them?" --everyone

"No" --Every company that does moderation and spam filtering.

"No" --Every company that does not publish their internal business processes.

"No" --Every company that does not publish their source code.

Honestly I could probably think of tons of other business cases like this, but in the software world outside of open source, the answer is pretty much no.

Then we get back to square one: better no rules at all than secret rules.

This would also be less of a problem if we didn't have a few companies that are economically more powerful than many small countries running everything. At least then I could vote with my feet to go somewhere the rules aren't private.

I mean, now you're hitting the real argument. Giant multinationals are a scourge to humankind.

having rules, and knowing what the rules are are not orthogonal goals.

I mean, you think so, but op wrote

>is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish.

so is obviously not on the same page as you.

I find it fascinating this type of response from people is always accompanied by a political label in order to insinuate some other negative baggage.