[mirekrusin]

Less harmful would be to ban large models from being not open.

If you ban open large models in US, you'll cripple US and make few megacorps very rich, very quickly. You'll drain talent to other (also competing) states. Truly bad actors won't be affected, if anything they'll get advantage.

People draw weird analogies equating llama2 to nuclear device etc. nonsense but the closer analogy would be to ban on semiconductors of certain efficiency for US itself.

Similar idiotic argument as for banning cryptography.

[gryn]

I agree, but if there's enough political will (ie these orgs convince a large enough subset of the right people) the US can bully other nations to implement similar policities like it has done many times in the past.

once you understand that what they are trying to protect is the safety of their profits every of their argument start to make sense.

[mirekrusin]

You can replace "US" with "US and states that agreed to do the same". The argument still stands, it just creates worse outcome for states that agreed to it.