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They're kind of at the mercy of the US government on this, and the government seems to have them in the position you describe.

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Agreed, though it sounds like they could add KYC stuff and restore access for US citizens. I utterly hate that we're at that point and I think it's ludicrous for privacy and just common sense, but it would be nice to know if that's their plan or not for example. Or if their plan is to just wait for the government to decide on something, or if they're planning to sue, or whatever.

> though it sounds like they could add KYC stuff and restore access for US citizens

I suspect so, I just got an email yesterday from Anthropic on their privacy policy update and they added:

> As part of our measures to keep our services safe and secure we may ask you to verify your age or identity, and we've described what we collect and how.

So yeah, ID verification is coming unfortunately. I wonder how that's going to work for team/business/enterprise plans? Is every individual corporate user going to have to submit their ID? How do they handle staying in compliance with the law with credential sharing that can happen within the company from the same IP address?

It's so great that the US is against AI regulation and gives corporations freedom to innovate /s

yep, and while Anthropic is now spending their time dealing with regulation, the Chinese models have some time to catch up.

I do wonder though, when those models are "mythos class" (whatever that means), will China do the same thing restricting it from export? If they get a model that's better than US companies, I fully expect them to stop open sourcing them for the world (but I hope I'm wrong about that).

China is benefiting a lot from releasing the models open-source and those benefits immediately end if they start doing closed-source releases. It would be very short-sighted

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