This should be fun. Trump administration looking at ways to curtail access to Chinese open source models. My thinking is that they’re not though through all the second and third order effects from such a move.

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They will probably ban them for Americans on natsec grounds 😂
Of course. Same playbook with TikTok. In the end it’s all about regulatory capture.
Curtailing access to open source models will drive development underground, making it harder to audit and secure codebases, increasing vulnerability to backdoors.
Less dependence on foreign tech, more self-sufficiency, just like our diets should be.