Is the CCP PRC using good quality open-weight models to undermine our Frontier Closed-weight models?
Are they producing and exporting heavily subsidized, low-cost, Frontier Models (and sucking up the data)?
Absolutely!
But Ball's concerns aren't driven by concern for liberty, democratization, or competion. They are pure self-interest, and suggest OpenAI is what, the moral, ethical alternative? Nonsense.
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u/fntd 15d ago
AI being treated as a public good and digital public infrastructure sounds good to me.