> “The source described leading AI labs or their allies approaching the administration every 3-5 months with an idea to ban open-source models.”

That's going to hit first amendment grounds pretty quick, the same way that software in general did.

The modern version of the decss flag will be a character that says "I think good weights are {...weights go here...}"

They could, however, ban any payment to a chinese entity, or any entity owned by a chinese entity for inference/ai services/etc

That's going to hit first amendment grounds pretty quick, the same way that software in general did

Don't count on that. "National security" == the cheat code for the US court system that instantly bypasses any First Amendment issues.

Uh, how big would such a flag have to be?