Comment by roughly
7 days ago
The United States government needs to make tradeoffs. They are as you list.
The Chinese government also needs to make tradeoffs. You can imagine what they are.
You as an individual also need to make tradeoffs. In doing so, you ought be sure to remember you’re not a nation state, you’re an individual human being.
(You may decide “I find myself one small being in a world full of nation states, and given that, I trust the US government to keep me safe, and therefore will align myself with its interests,” at which point “ban DeepSeek” is in your interests as well as those of the US government, but you shouldn’t get the two confused, lest you miss the moments those interests diverge.)
I am an individual living in a nation state that has nurtured and protected me and made me rich, comparatively, so it is in my interest to pledge allegiance to that nation and protect it in kind. One of the ways is by not giving training data to foreign models runners which doesn't mean we can't run the foreign models locally.
It’s currently in your interest to do so, or so you believe. That’s fine. Understand that may change, because, again, you are an individual and not a nation state, and specifically not the nation state you’re pledging allegiance to and putting your safety in the hands of.