Comment by TacticalCoder
2 hours ago
> So, any solution to this “problem” must include ALL open-weight models.
What about the EU? Would they follow Uncle Sam's order to ban all open-weight models? Lately the EU hasn't been that cozy with american companies: there are EU companies and institutions moving to EU clouds, the EU just fine Google a cool billion, several are switching away from Windows to Linux, etc.
Or is it just the US that'd ban open-weights models, while, say, the EU and Japan would still allow them?
It’s certainly only the US, because the alternative would effectively mean binding yourself to US providers, which isn’t attractive for anyone outside the US, in the present world-political climate.
Probably just the US. But the US could do what EU has done with e.g. GDPR, Digital Services Act, USB-C regs, where they force any company trading in their region to follow those regulations for domestic customers.
And basically any AI company has to sell to US companies or consumers. That'd probs be sufficient to force them to use US models.
And like non-EU companies create EU subsidiaries for that reason, non-US companies would create US ones.
I doubt Anthropic and OpenAI have enough weight to also make the EU ban open models, it would remain a US thing.