stealing a model and building the entire AI community is a very very big difference :

Fine tune, update, Run model without very deep domain knowledge, that's what we receive as an outcome.

If you are a software engineer and you steal a model in some close format of Open AI , you will not get lots of benefits even if you understand the format of that model, it's a complex beast by all means.

This is a playbook how anyone can run it.

So yeah, big corp is evil from one side, but oh well, think of North Korea, Russia etc level of evilness and what they can do whit that.

> think of North Korea, Russia etc level of evilness and what they can do whit that.

To date, I have not seen any "evil" applications of AI, let alone dangerous or even useful ones. If Russia or North Korea get their hands on a modern AI model, the CIA will get their "Red Mercury" call: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_mercury

If you think Chinese engineers can't deploy and productize (even weaponize) LLM models in production with the same ease as Western engineers, I think you're talking about last century China.

Wouldn’t even need to pay to steal it. FAANG have been shown to be hacked by state actors. China has some of the best hackers in the world.