Okay, so if the chinese models are used everyday, do they become a value add? Like what's the line you're drawing here. Amount of value it creates?

Designing and creating an LLM from nothing is a monumental feat of Engineering and 'value add'.

Copying something is not.

Programming Microsoft Word is value add, copying the code is not.

Copying design ... there are some question marks there.

It's extremely easy to understand at it's core.

What makes it hard, is that faux intellectuals like to deconstruct ideas at the margins, and have those critiques stand in for reason.

"At sunrise the sun is only 'half there' ... there fore there is no 'day and night' just a blur! Day and night are the same thing!"

The training data used is part of all of this is a separate but related question.