alt Hacker NewsStep 1: Chinese company publishes open weights on HF
Step 2: European company distills or just adjusts the model slightly, and publishes its model on HF
Step 3: American company uses model from step 2. Has to testify under oath where they got it from. "We got it from these French guys"
That French guy takes risk to be forever under US warrants for breaking American law, denied access to financial institutions even in Europe and will quickly go to some KYC entity list, and you will be notified as his clients to stop using his model.
Or you think all kind of fraud can be committed through some "french guy"?
Also, I am not confident, receiving illegal materials from French guy gates you from personal liability.