And we are definitely not going to put our users on a watch list DB and send their data to the government?
And how do we prevent Chinese companies from training on our open AI models and offering their models for free?
And how do we prevent Chinese companies from training on our open AI models and offering their models for free?
https://www.ibm.com/policy/contributions-and-expenditures
Their biggest customer is the US federal government, taken in aggregate across agencies, IBM is one of the largest federal IT contractors, and deep public-sector and financial-services contracts in the US make it IBM's single largest national market. No individual commercial company comes close to the government's aggregate spend.
Now, equivalent product, another company, they want to sell to the government twice cheaper, can they ? nope, it will be IBM winning.
Furthermore, according to the lobbyists, China = evil but they forget that a lot of software contains Chinese code.