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> I think the industry is freaking out about open weights models in general, if not specifically DeepSeek. That is why we're now on the ~4th call for pacing the frontier from the very people who, if they wanted to pace the frontier, would simply do it rather than asking Washington to get involved.

This makes no sense. Pacing the frontier gives open models the time to catch up and reach parity.

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"Pacing the frontier" means "implementing regulatory capture". They don't necessarily care about preventing open weight models from existing, just on preventing the people with money from being able to make use of them.

Unfortunately for them America's share of the economic pie is a lot smaller than it was just 20 years ago.

The Chinese will keep doing what they are doing, the EU has no love for Silicon Valley and the rest of the world votes with their wallet.

They would leave a competitive advantage to non-US companies. Even if, and that's a big if, they can coordi ate with Europe Asia would still ignore them

Legislation that prevented US companies from using open weight models would have the desired effect. They're the only people paying for AI anyway.

If you read through Dario Amodei's manifesto on pacing the frontier, the only concrete action item is implementing even harsher restrictions on technology exports to China.

The important part is HOW they want to pace the frontier. Not by actuall slowing down themselves, but by having the government create expensive regulations, like having independent verifiers "verify" the models before release.

Now, something tells me that those verifiers would verify anything an american company in good standing with the Trump admin releases, and likely nothing else.

And obviously, since verification is so incredibly important, we can't allow models, open or not, from other non-verified companies.

Think of the profits...I mean, the kids, or something.

We could mandate an onboard chip that would safely and securely vet models, denying bad people the ability to run naughty models.

We could call the chip … ClAIpper … or something

Wow, that takes me back...

Now I feel old.

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