Here is what I think it the game is:

1. Force KYC is US LLM providers, gleefully supported by the US LLM providers.

2. Next -> now Chinese LLM providers must use KYC in the "free market" Western world.

3. But we can's allow KYC information to go to China, can we?

4. Now Western customers can not access Chinese LLM

5. Prices go up 10x to $2,000+/month. Anthropic/OpenAI are happy.

5. Chinese providers license their models to western partners, with the Chinese running training and the westerners running inference.

It's what most western companies have to do when they want to operate in China anyway, no reason why we couldn't have a reverse system.

this is ridiculous.

there are tons of US providers supports Chinese models. Chinese labs give them weights, they don't give back user info in return.