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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by surajama on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:54PM (#49030737)
That might stop European companies from buying inference directly from China. I don’t see how anyone could possibly stop them from taking an open-weight Chinese model and then modifying it and selling it to Americans as a European model.
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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by mft_ on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:14AM (#49032627)
It would become known and be blocked. You think if the EU started rebadging and reexporting Chinese EVs to the US the EU tariff wouldn't jumt up to the Chinese level very quickly?
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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by e44858 on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:34PM (#49038070)
How can you prove that a modified LLM was based on a Chinese model?
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Re:Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open ... by mft_ on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:45PM (#49038245)
IANA AI researcher, but there are different technique for fingerprinting or assessing the similarity of different LLM models. Or it could become known via a leak, or good old humint.

If it wanted to, the US could make model inspection (with direct access to the weights) a condition of access to their market.

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