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Wait until it is illegal to download or use Chinese models (only half-joking).
by ks2048 4mo ago
Wait until it is illegal to download or use Chinese models (only half-joking).
- sh34r 4mo agoGood thing these corrupt gerontocrats are also all in on cryptocurrency then.
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- platinumrad 4mo agoAnthropic is explicitly lobbying for this.
- fosco 4mo agoKnow where I can read about that?
- platinumrad 4mo agoThe two main bills I'm aware of are the Decoupling America's AI Capabilities from China Act and No Adversarial AI Act. The former would have made it illegal for any American citizen to simply use DeepSeek. I couldn't find any lobbying data, but the obvious effect is that Americans would be forced to pay for more expensive domestic alternatives. A House committee also recently probed Cursor and Airbnb for using Chinese models, rather than more expensive American alternatives. A sexagenarian Congressman gave a nonsense quote that he certainly did not come up with himself,[1] which sounds very similar to language Anthropic uses in its marketing materials.[2][3] [1] https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/house-committee-probes-cursor-parent-airbnb-over-chinese-ai https://www.semafor.com/article/04/29/2026/house-committee-p... [2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/updating-restrictions-of-sales-to-unsupported-regions https://www.anthropic.com/news/updating-restrictions-of-sale... [3] https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership https://www.anthropic.com/research/2028-ai-leadership
- aesthesia 4mo agoMoolenaar's quote: "The AI models these companies use are trained by China’s censorship regime and introduce hidden vulnerabilities that put Americans’ data and businesses at risk." That is, Americans using Chinese-trained AI models are exposed to some form of cybersecurity risk. That's not really a threat model described in either of the Anthropic posts you share, which mainly talk about the risks of allowing authoritarian regimes to use powerful US-trained models, and the geopolitical risks of authoritarian countries developing strong AI before democratic/liberal countries do.
- mcast 4mo agoIs there any SCOTUS precedent for this? It seems like a huge 1A issue for the government to limit self hosted access to a foreign country’s LLM.
- CamperBob2 4mo agoNothing funny about it. That's exactly what Amodei asks for, every time he rubs his monkey's paw.
- verdverm 4mo agoThey'll have to remove sections like this from their AI Action Plan > We need to ensure America has leading open models founded on American values. Open- source and open-weight models could become global standards in some areas of business and in academic research worldwide. For that reason, they also have geostrategic value. While the decision of whether and how to release an open or closed model is fundamentally up to the developer, the Federal government should create a supportive environment for open models.
- ks2048 4mo agoUnless they (gasp!) write some statement they don’t believe or don’t follow through with.
- karmasimida 4mo agoAnthropic hates open weight Chinese models so yes