Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China

theguardian.com

19 points·beardyw··7 comments

from the article

* OpenAI has not elaborated about the reason for its sudden decision. ChatGPT is already blocked in China by the government’s firewall, but until this week developers could use virtual private networks to access OpenAI’s tools in order to fine-tune their own generative AI applications and benchmark their own research. Now the block is coming from the US side.*

If chatgtp is blocked anyway, there little advantage to allow researchers access but bekng able to monetize.

OpenAIs models are so powerful and so close to AGI that the global balance of power would flip if autocratic regimes like China were to gain API access to it.

That’s what I am getting from the geopolitical safety researching marketing department.

Anyway as far as I can tell OpenAI has been turning access on and off for a while. And oddly enough now have decided to turn it off completely just as plenty of credible alternatives are emerging.

Close to AGI? It's a different type of search engine (hard to say if better or worse) and has nothing to do with intelligence

I was trying to be tongue in the cheek - my point is emphasizing dangers and restricting access can act as a form of marketing.

Is Alibaba and qwen not good enough for them?

It probably is.

But China has its own powerful models no?

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