But I feel like that will just lead to more training with the same (or more) hardware with a more efficient model. Bitcoin mining didn’t slow down only because it got harder. However I don’t know enough about the training process. I assume more efficient use of the hardware would allow for larger models to be trained on the same hardware and training data?

For what reasons other than political would blizzard want to stay on his good side? Or do you think Elon’s money in the cosmetic store would just be that valuable to them?

I would just like to clarify I’m not a fan of the NSA. Just it’s not unusual for them also support security. I believe SELinux even stems from them.

Have fun not using AES then.