[teyopi]

What does China do that US does not?

They are releasing open models, so at-least up until now their advancements you can run yourself.

US frontier labs on the other hand keep it all to themselves. The moment they cut access you have nothing and your country will be stumped on and forced in making decisions not in your national interest.

[abc42]

>What does China do that US does not?

Support the enemies of my country, most probably.

With Trump, this has admittedly become a bit more non-obvious, but I think it's mainly still so.

[shostack]

This is literal whataboutism. Refute the comment if you have a valid point to make.

[teyopi]

Erm, no? it is pointing out hypocrisy?

If you are against the thing China does, when US does the thing also be against it.

US has always done what China does, now trump is doing it vocally.

So it is easier to point out the hypocrisy in it.

Before there was plausible deniability.

Thank you for your attention to this matter

[abc42]

Well, it's more complicated than that.

Let's imagine that China and USA do some equally bad thing against my privacy, let's say intercept and store all the traffic between myself and my AI provider. I am inclined to excuse it from USA and not from China because it's much more likely that China would use it to undermine the security of my home country. USA on the other hand, is literally a military ally of my home country.

I don't naively think that USA is a 100% benign country because of the alliance and that my interests are aligned with them. Trump especially has made that part worse. They're just more aligned with me than China.