Lots of legitimate reasons to view Chinese AI as a threat. But A16Z and Anthropic and OpenAI are probably mostly worried about competition, especially from open weights models.
Someone can illuminate for me how the Chinese AI systems will be worse for me than the US-based ones. We're monitored for social, political and economic activity already. US sock puppet groups are hust as bad as foreign in stirring up election interference. And US authorities arrest us based on incorrect facial recognition, petty oligarchs throw us out of Madison Square Garden, federal police will have Meta glasses to recognize people on streets.
Yes, we've seen this several times
(13+9+10+11+5 points, 1+1+1+3+3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985073 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999538 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020412
Lots of legitimate reasons to view Chinese AI as a threat. But A16Z and Anthropic and OpenAI are probably mostly worried about competition, especially from open weights models.
Someone can illuminate for me how the Chinese AI systems will be worse for me than the US-based ones. We're monitored for social, political and economic activity already. US sock puppet groups are hust as bad as foreign in stirring up election interference. And US authorities arrest us based on incorrect facial recognition, petty oligarchs throw us out of Madison Square Garden, federal police will have Meta glasses to recognize people on streets.