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"consistent with its general practice, BIS will not require a license for the export of the model weights of open-weight models"

Reminder that the US government has a public RfC on widely available model weights closing at the end of the month. If you don't want unserious ideas like these dominating the conversation please remember to provide your input: https://www.regulations.gov/document/NTIA-2023-0009-0001

Potentially interesting on the alignment front: In my experience the yi-6b model running on ollama is more likely to refuse politically sensitive queries (relating to Tiananmen Square, Peng Shuai’s disappearance, etc) when asked in Chinese, and more likely to provide information when asked in English. I wonder if this difference falls out naturally from available training data, is a deliberate internationalization choice, or is just noise from the queries I happened to run.