If you do the math, they don't have a choice. If China captures America's AI market it'll cause a major depression. They'll give it the BYD treatment, though it'll be a lot less effective.
The “you wouldn’t download a car” meme applies here
They'll ban them because (unless run locally or self-hosted) they are just data capture tools for the China.
You dont think CIA and NSA are reading the data Asian and European companies and individuals send to openai and antropic?
If it’s open weight then anyone can run it for you. Presumably someone you trust just as much as US proprietary models.
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Please explain to me how that works. If I download gguf file and run inference with it, how is it collecting and sending data back to China?
This makes no sense, 99% of the people using Chinese models are using them via Western inference providers who are running them and serving them to people over openrouter or whatever. If anyone is stealing your data it would be an American or European inference provider. A model has no ability to send data anywhere.
China bad by default, right?
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