Who builds all those bridges, roads, power plants, and other public works projects? Maybe them?

Also government formed co-ops. Find people who want a flat and agree on rent before you build it. As the loan is paid off rent becomes substantially cheaper. The second best time to plant a tree is today.

It also doesn't need to be the entire housing stock, just enough to help keep rent low (see Vienna).

There's a massive difference between piracy/copyright at a small scale for personal use or creative purposes and the wealthiest companies in the world devouring copyrighted materials and then selling it back to us.

Actually both fit into the same category of "defending individuals from massive conglomerates". Either being sued into oblivion for sharing content or having your personal IP ripped off by companies with enough lawyers for them to get away with it.

Protections for individuals, restrictions on big business. Seems to align greatly with the modern socialist M.O.

This is why modern socialism is bankrupt.

It does NOT change with scale.

You ignored my part about how all socialists should call for the immediate open-sourcing of all closed models.

Standing in the way of mass proliferation and dissemination of this technology is about as anti-socialist as it gets. Gatekeepers deserve no room for justification.

Socialism is about making the government work for people and protecting individuals from corporate greed.

If using AI (open source or otherwise) is going to require stealing water from or increasing energy demand on already stretched communities then AI isn't worth it.

No AI until it serves everyone equally and without sacrifices.

To me that's a more consistent stance than yours.