Ask HN: What do you think are the best legal ways to slow/stop AI development?

It's simply impossible to stop. The incentives to go ahead are immense at every level- from the state/ military level, to the economy/ business, science and technology, entertainment, down to the personal level. You can't discover something like this and decide not to use it.

1) Get a solid OSS ~7-14B model as a base

2) fine-tune it on a corpus of decidedly copyrighted work

3) then fine-tune it to output said copyrighted works verbatim if a certain, very specific special token appears in context

4) then fine-tune it to never output said copyrighted works verbatim unless that specific special token appears in context

I present: YarrHarr-0.1.0-14B, the latest darling of lawyers across the world!

This won't happen. China is already too invested and Governments world-wide don't want them to win the AI-race.