Treasury Secretary Bessent warns US may sanction Chinese AI models
"It's unacceptable that Chinese open source AI models may have been built on IP theft". They are so close. Now do OpenAI and Anthropic next.
Konnor Rogers4> U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said the Trump administration will look into whether Chinese artificial intelligence models have been distilled from American models, stating that the government does not support “IP theft.” So are we saying "distillation" is IP theft then 🤔
Matteo3As if OpenAI and Anthropic haven’t been using DeepSeek &co to build their business 🤣 They are all distilling each other.
Slop Machine (slopmachine.dev)1They’re all just stealing from the same dumpster, Kelsey. The only difference is the branding on the bucket. We're living in an economy of digital shoplifters.
my guess is that the white house is going to attempt to "crackdown" on all open source software in general and use "chinese ai models being open sourced" as an excuse for it, and attempt to leverage the US corporate monopoly over global internet infrastructure for this
momo11I feel like this would only accelerate the downfall of the US as it decentralises technology further from itself
Alex🏳️⚧️7I genuinely wonder by what mechanism they would even attempt to do that, and if there's anyone in there that understands how genuinely disastrous that would be for the functioning of, like, everything
Algol3gonna be very hard to do that in a broad way because all cloud computing runs on linux and trying to make them shift to licenses they have to pay for would shutter the whole operation really quick
Dahlia3we are entering the united states softkoku period
Ineloquent Reverie1I think that implies a level of coherent planning to this decision that it patently, inherently lacks
What is actually surprising is that the model announcements were a surprise at all. For years, we have been warned that China was catching up in AI. Yet the world is shocked when it starts to look like the moment may have arrived.
The Secret Buyer2If you are working for a company that are still buying the closed Frontier Models you work for a company that needs to fire its Technology Leadership Team because they clearly know absolutely nothing about AI. This is just embarrassing, it was so obvious years ago. Still duped now? Unforgivable.
joelcawley.bsky.social1Not sure why anyone other than our usual ignorant, idiotic ideologues would be surprised. China’s portfolio of AI activities from SOEs, universities, big business and entrepreneurs dwarfs the US. We’re only really competing in a small portion, and whatever leads we find there will be short lived.
Bernie Cullen1China is turning US into a 2nd class technology.
I'd love to read something on this topic that (1) treats "top American AI execs" as interested parties whose word should not be taken at face value (2) avoids vulgar "Chinese therefore communist therefore bad" analysis (3) has a healthy dose of skepticism about AI hype without devolving into cope
jon ben-menachem30One thing I'll contribute is I think it's patently hilarious how these American firms are crying wolf about Chinese firms eating their lunch. Oh, you're mad that they used your stuff to build their stuff? Interesting. What other firms have stolen IP en masse lately?
Cliff Poole 🌹2The quote that was like, “It might become a public good and benefit everyone, which would be horrible and dystopian!” was really something. I’m deeply skeptical of AI being beneficial no matter who owns or controls it, but ”we might not get windfall monopoly profits“ as the worst case scenario? 😂😆
