[pogue]

It's wild how restricting China's access to our GPUs led them to create some of the top & most widely used open source ai models, while the US's models seem to be few and far between.

It looks like Meta has given up on Llama, which was one of the most popular, in favor of going proprietary to make more money.

This also leads me to believe the discussion about China slipping propaganda into their models (the whole "ask it about Tiananmen Square" thing) was never really a thing or at least not a priority for them.

[IAmGraydon]

Turns out, prohibition doesn't work in any of its many forms. This has been obvious to anyone with a semblance of critical thought for the last 100 years, but the US government never seems to learn.

[bhouston]

> prohibition doesn't work in any of its many forms.

It definitely does work in that it will prevent us customers from accessing cheap goods from China and thus enrich the local AI companies that are paying the politicians to ban the Chinese models.

[asdewqqwer]

Any one with critical thought should realize government behavior are usually symbolic and does not necessarily try to solve what it claims to (try to) solve on paper.