[nunez]

It'll be pretty easy. Some US gov entity will create a list of models from Hugging Face, decree "thou shalt not provide access to these models", wrap it around some scary legalese for the pirates who try and that will be that.

Though the legalese might not even be necessary. The list alone will make sure that no American company runs these on their servers, including the hosting providers.

[KludgeShySir]

Yeah, all the corporations will then be forced to pay for proprietary models, and then Big Model will be satisfied.

Just like typically individuals can get away with using pirated software, but IP owners don't make much of a stink as long as they've got the sweet, sweet enterprise license fees rolling in.