Ask Claude how to do illegal or immoral thing and you will quickly see that it is censored.
I didn't mean to problematize censorship. Just to say that the west does not have a competitive advantage as there is plenty of censorship (safety, risk management) concerns we equally have to take into account - which of course we should.
It's not just an illegal or immoral thing, it's broad strokes to potentially catch illegal or immoral things, by certain people who decide what those morals are.
In the US there is 18 U.S.C. § 842(p).
In the EU there is the entire AI Act.
But I am sure you can yourself chat your way through to figure out what legislation companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are under.
TM 31-210 Improvised Munitions Handbook is readily available.
You sure can establish that there is a qualitative difference on the type of censorship carried out - congrats.
The main point I spelled out is that there is no comparative advantage (technical or business wise) on working on these products in the west as you have to implement and operationalize the same amount of censorship / safety.
Someone who would use this obvious of a red herring is dishonest. The point was not that the censorship is identical, but that the effect of censorship is in both cases to lobotomize the models.