> The Chinese models are censored (too?).

This is MUCH less of an issue if they're providing the weights though.

They can still be fine-tuned & ablated.

> corruption, revenge, shakdeown, and/or incompetence

Sadly, I think it's all four at once.

Also, IPO prep work. The whole industry is speed running enshitification.

It’s not just the models. Try copy pasting stuff out of the claude app, or sharing a conversation. It’s completely broken now.

It feels like the difference is really just the competence level of the corrupt government.

It’s not like the American regime is anti-censorship but pro-shakedown.

china is doing political censorship on specific well known topics - their current government, corruption and workers rights, taiwan, tiananmen square, human rights in xinjiang, old communist leaders and a couple others. not defending them just to be clear. the rules are the same for everyone, if your model cant give you anti ccp views with normal prompting you are safe. they never tried to restrict access to a model thats already public for vague security reasons.

Tbh if we had a Harris admin I expect we'd have some sort of locking down by now.

Probably. But it would be at least somewhat thought-out and apply to all the AI providers. Not just the one currently disfavored by Captain Dipshit and the Sycophants.

I really don't know why business cozies up to Trump so much, given how unbelievably unreliable and mercurial he is about...everything.

Because he’s running a racket. If you don’t cozy up to Trump you will suffer and it’s as simple as that. This administration is a mafia.

Nobody thinks the leopards will eat THEIR faces, just their neighbors'.