The Anthropic news is demonstrating much the same; fall in line or eat export controls.

There was a time I would have agreed with you, but these days even as an American I fail to see a difference. China is probably less likely to try to disenfranchise or imprison me, to be honest.

> Pretty much every large Chinese company has state capital baked into it, and these companies will follow the Chinese government's orders 100%

True of any US frontier lab as well

> Backing any large Chinese company effectively means backing the Chinese government and its oppression in Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong—and maybe soon Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and elsewhere around the world.

So when I pay anthropic am I also sponsoring the mass murder of school children in Iran?

'Open' and 'for everyone' doesn't have to mean 'not following government's orders'. The last sentence of yours is a non sequitur.

Also, in today's environment with the US using AI in active wars while blocking whole models from even its own citizens, the words you say against the Chinese government is particularly weak.

Here's the truth: ALL of the "open" AI companies are fake UNLESS they open-source the whole damned thing. Let's get real here, politics or otherwise, unless the WHOLE THING is open-sourced (code, weights, data, etc) then it's built on future deception (pulling the rug from underneath).

Like, DUH, people. What are we doing here?

Backing any large US company effectively means backing the US government and its worldwide oppression as well. I still can't get over the fact it was the land of the free who was the first to ban strong LLM models. If backing China helps undermine that nonsense then I'm afraid I'll take them up on their offer.