Speaking of sophon lock. One difference between the US and Chyna is their idea of "quantum technology". American corpos are ahead in quantum computers. CCP boomers are speedrunning to secure quantum communication. It reminds me of Qian Xuesen's missiles-before-aircraft strategy.
the level of sophon locking a motivated actor can pull off with the frontier models is truly insane, making stuxnet look like a toy. subtly messing with results, deleting history to cover tracks, achieving coordination/conspiracy over a scale humans wouldn’t be able to, all sorts of looney toons stuff
i assume that only a state level operation would try and pull something like this off though. something to think about when considering verification regimes and so on
