The government will just claim that unsanctioned models have the potential to deliberately introduce security vulnerabilities when working on IT projects (e.g. be trained to strongly yet covertly favoring introducing compromised dependencies when you are not looking).

Then laws will be made to forbid organizations who use models other than those from the sanctioned labs to participate in critical projects on national security concerns.

All of a sudden, no business would risk using open source models anymore.

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pixelpoet an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Then all they do is drive the usage of open models underground (copyright infringement is illegal too, and still common), stifle US companies operating legally, and accelerate the rest of the world decoupling from the US.

I hope they do it! It will have a positive long-term effect just like the Iran war footgun accelerates renewable energy transition.

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utilize1808 an hour ago | parent [-]

Have you seen legitimate corporates use cracked software? If you do, then your competitors will report you; your employees will blackmail you. The risk is too great.

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0x3f 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This assumes the same reward ratio also continues, but that's not the case. A cutting edge LLM is something much more valuable than a cracked copy of Word. Just like the LLM providers themselves decided violating copyright was an acceptable risk, it entirely depends on how people see the tradeoffs, rather than being a categorical decision.

	▲	utilize1808 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		While that might be true, it is unlikely that open source models' capability will ever surpass frontier models --- if you have the best model (by some margin), then people will want to access it, even if it means going through compliance.

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jauco 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He said copyright infringement. The company tfa is about literally trained its models using massive copyright infringement.

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Daishiman 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Then they'll outsource dev work to agencies that have no frills with it and move along.

	▲	utilize1808 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		As a company it is your responsibility to ensure your contractors are compliant. So won't work.

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jesse_dot_id 6 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Streisand effect