AI Regulation Concerns - Notes on DeepSeek

Question about when illegal models will emerge, China's approach of regulating AI applications rather than models, open weights models and ability to strip censorship, centralization concerns with US companies

As the public anticipates the emergence of "illegal models," debate intensifies over whether AI will become a tool for liberation or state control. Some observers hypothesize that the CCP will accelerate AI development to create a "totalitarian Swiss knife" designed to solidify power, though others argue that open weights models make it trivial for individuals to strip away government-mandated censorship. Ultimately, this tension highlights a growing fear that the extreme centralization of capital in US-based firms like OpenAI and Anthropic may pose a greater threat to society than the regulatory maneuvers of any single nation.

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approximately how many months/years until there are "illegal models"?

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The CCP knows, whatever the heck this technology will bring with itself, the current power dynamic inside of the country is on their side, and AI will solidify it.

I hypothesize that, rather than slowly having it disperse in society and allow people to harness it in ways they don't want, they might as well accelerate everything until AI becomes the totalitarian swiss knife - which they can make use of in the best way of course.

Let's see what will happen.

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I don't really see how open weights models further what you're talking about.

It's trivial for me to download one of their models and run it on my Spark, and there's all sorts of ways to strip out their Tiananmen-denialism or whatever.

If/when the memory price crunch dissipates, even more so. And so far it's only China I see as making moves to increase production capacity on memory, too.

If anything the centralization of capital into US-based Anthropic and OpenAI is far more terrifying from the perspective you're outlining.