alt Hacker NewsIts not about bad/good. It's about self-serving interests. Currently, it serves China's interests to open source the models. If they had capabilities beyond those available in the US, I expect that would no longer be the case. Especially given the military/cyber implications. You don't expect them to open source their J-35 blueprints, so why would they behave differently here?
The reason this matters is, if along the way, they destroy all economic incentives for US labs, you may find yourself in a world, where you have no alternatives to closed Chinese models.
Look no further than what happened to mineral processing. Notice they are not open sourcing their mineral processing and magnet-manufacturing technologies.
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You could say that about anything
I find it hard to imagine that it would be possible to be less ethical than the US labs.
This fear mongering doesn’t scare me
You seem to be under the impression that somehow only US has the capability to advance this tech. Aren’t these AI mega corporations constantly trying to scare us that if they stop pushing AI, China will get ahead? Which narrative should we believe?
> if along the way, they destroy all economic incentives for US labs
Nah, they should be able to compete! To be honest, I find it hard to sympathize with trillion dollar ungodly rich corps.