It's not dangerous to go further unless you're prepping for IPO at anthropic or openai.

Open weight Chinese models are basically matching state of the art closed models at a fraction of the inference and training costs, which puts a hard cap on OpenAI's future inference margins.

They're not going to get any sort of multiplier if they keep paying to train models, so they're trying to ban model training.

It won't work long term, but it could totally screw over the US for the next decade or so. Even worse than the economic issue: Consider the implications of "alignment" succeeding. Alignment to whose values? The pedophile-felon in chief? Even worse, tech CEOs?

It's dark times when China's basically our last best defense against totalitarianism.