Will be hysterically funny if Chinese open models just walk past the US "public frontier" (goytier) and keep improving, but storing their weights is criminalized because anything above Opus 4.8 is Government Access Only. I don't think it'll get quite that #silly; we shall see.
Users reacted to potential US weight restrictions on Chinese open models by noting that technology cannot be stopped by bans, though some strongly disapproved of such bans as unenforceable and responded with hostility.
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"Generally obtainable yield" tier = GOYtier yield as in nuclear weapon yield LLMs are uranium after all
Ofc Chinese APIs are getting banned first
Will be hysterically funny if Chinese open models just walk past the US "public frontier" (goytier) and keep improving, but storing their weights is criminalized because anything above Opus 4.8 is Government Access Only. I don't think it'll get quite that #silly; we shall see.
@teortaxesTex If that happens, I would like to see Mistral deploy the above Opus 4.8 model and then watch the US start blocking EU APIs.
@teortaxesTex 技术这玩意儿从来都是拦不住的越禁越魔幻
I'm sure they will try and that open weights models at the frontier will be made "illegal" (while ignoring the inherent territoriality of such appellation, as burgers are known to).
Effective execution of that legislation however is another thing altogether, if history is any lesson there it will fail hilariously.
Nuclear weapon design is useful only to highly industrialized nation states and *those* secrets mostly got out to the public eventually, despite having no practical use to all but a few hundreds of people.
And if we compare to things that are at least in the same general utility universe, the warez underground has proven how hard it is to control the distribution of forbidden numbers.
@teortaxesTex banned or sanctioned
@teortaxesTex Ah still babbling inanely about "the Chinese", @teortaxesTex. I suppose it gives you something to do as @X crumbles.