[resters]

I think we'll know this is true when deepseek becomes illegal in the US.

I tried to sign up for deepseek API access directly from the company out of gratitude for the open source contribution (deepseek.com) but payments are blocked by US government rules.

[arcatech]

The point of open weight models is not having to rely on specific providers for them.

[resters]

For now open weight models are legal. Conceivably the government could claim that an open weight model "contained" forbidden information and simply ban it. We live in authoritarian times.