[vkou]

> If the US decides to unilaterally shut down LLMs, that just means that the rest of the world will route around us.

You're talking as if they are some kind of nationalized or publically-owned asset, as opposed to a bunch of for-profit, privately-owned silos.

[Sophira]

Local models are a thing, though. You can run DeepSeek on your local computer.

Even if ChatGPT, Huggingface, etc. died, we would still have the models and we would still be able to run them.

[vkou]

Local models mitigate many of the ethical concerns, but that's not what the end game is.

The firms pouring trillions of dollars into them want to own their creative output, and charge rent for access to it.

[EasyMark]

These cases can set precedents that basically shut down all all future "useful" AI implementations if the judges go too far. You can bet that CCP doesn't care one whit about US copyright law if leads to them leapfrogging us, it will definitely be j-johna-jameson-laugh.gif . I think that's the point of the commenter from 20000ft

[vkou]

> if leads to them leapfrogging us

They won't be leapfrogging 'us'.

They'll be leapfrogging some privately owned, for-profit business.

Frankly, I don't give two shits about that, and I fail to see why anyone who doesn't own one of them should give one.

If they want me to have skin in the game, they should share either the profits, or the models. Until they do, it's not 'us', it's 'them'.

[EasyMark]

I care about the USA remaining relevant. If you don't that's fine as well. Have a great life