I don't see how this can happen, though. There are a lot of GPUs out there and open models have already been downloaded millions of times. The NATO world already relies quite heavily on open models, in many cases served by Mistral and other local providers. China is also developing its own hardware -- Huawei isn't slacking -- and it's not that far behind. And I'd bet there's no such thing as a "GPU Level" block that can't be hacked away.

Such a move would also be transparently dystopian... though, in fairness, I suppose that makes it more plausible than it would otherwise be...