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Steel has no nationality. Chinese Steel in American buildings on American soil is as American as apple pie... But what about when that was a deliberate dumping strategy to destroy the American steel industry? --- America NEEDS leading edge open weight models, but it's reasonable to ask: is China playing a game we don't fully understand designed to weaken our AI industry over the next decade? The equivalent of US Steel being forced to sell to Nippon Steel All of that said, I have a strong bias to *not* ban Chinese open weight models (at least not now) but I don't think it's as cut and dried as it appears on the surface
This would force American companies -- and only American companies -- to overpay for access, to overpriced LLMs, purchased from a company your firm invested in (at least in your steel analogy). Everyone else pays for the policy proposals that benefit your cos. And it doesn't have anything to do with supposed IP theft.
When China was dumping steel on the world, the correct move was to put high tariffs on it or ban it Yes that would have meant short term the countries that allowed it in would have a lower cost for steel But a decade later they’d lose their steel production I want open source! Just for us to be thoughtful.