[Kon-Peki]

That’s not at all how it would work.

The cat is out of the bag in terms of people passing around models that are “illegal” in your scenario, though such models would disappear from places like Huggingface. Running a commercial service that touches one of those models is off the table and will be blocked, at the IP level if need be, in essentially all the countries that matter economically to Chinese “exporters”.

[throw10920]

Correct, the main problem is companies stealing people's content and then monetizing it, not people passing around "illegal" models and using them directly.