alt Hacker NewsI understand why China wants to restrict exports of their models.
But I feel the only reason Chinese models have been able to gain such popularity is BECAUSE they are open source.
I wouldn’t trust models from China enough to use them in important work unless they were open.
Restricting any powerful Chinese model [that ranks in the global top 10] is going to make them very difficult to advocate for, and very hard for global users to adopt.
Feels like this could be the beginning of the end of the democratisation of powerful AI.
And yes, I appreciate the irony that Chinese models have been the ones enabling that democratisation!
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>I wouldn’t trust models from China enough to use them in important work unless they were open.
So you've inspected the weights for backdoors?
Let's just hope that both US and Chinese models remain usable enough by the masses for long enough for someone in Europe or Japan or some other actual free country to make a truly open AI :')
Why do they care about global usage though? This seems primarily so that they can control it for their billion plus population, they really don't need global users at all, much to our chagrin.