by aussiegreenie 5 hours ago
The Americans may ban the use of the Chinese models in America. But like the Chinese car ban, everyone else will use them.
That's not necessarily a good thing for everyone else, mind.
Yes, you get your free model, but the cost of this is not developing your own capability and tying your fate to a country which may or may not have your best interests as a nation in mind.
This is just the deindustrialization that occurred in my home region (the American Midwest) playing out on a global scale in different sectors. It was originally driven by the Japanese, who, to their credit, acted more as partners than competition. Eventually that desire for larger margins went to China, and now you basically can't build anything of consequence without at least some Chinese parts, because there's "no economic case" for it. This means that you have to play Beijing's game if you want access to any sort of modern market.
You see this happening with Volkswagen's restructuring, next you'll see it with non-American, non-Chinese AI.
It's not really the same because we already have the model. If China stopped letting us have it tomorrow I'd doesn't matter because... We have it already
So... how's that any different from using American stuff for those of us in the rest of the world?
Over the last decade, the US has been way more unreliable than China. There's been a near constant negative impact from the US doing something.
At least with China, we are very good at winning trade wars with them here in Australia.
You might feel differently if you were a Filipino or Vietnamese fisherman whose family relied on the income from the stocks of the South China Sea, or a Uighur person living in Western China, or a Ukrainian soldier who has to deal with drones built with Chinese components, or a democracy advocate in Hong Kong, or arguably, a person who had plans for 2020-2021.
Or, on a more local note, an Australian automotive worker who worked for a company that figured out 10 years ago that they wouldn't be able to pay him a decent wage, compete with the then-upcoming Chinese EVs, and remain profitable.
You might feel different if you're a palestinian who's getting american bombs dropped on him, or an afghani collateral damage or...
There is no good guys in general, and whataboutism and making the scope bigger doesn't help.
The thing is that if the models you are building on are open source whether hosted on chinese / american / whatever service at least give you an option to switch provider easier vs a fable / chatgpt 5.6 that gets banned for none americans etc...
2 years ago america would have had the branding/perception advantage but right now that is well and truly gone...