> western governments
Are you talking about the US, specifically?
Why would other countries, that don't share the same anxiety about China as the US, would be troubled with the this?
Are you talking about the US, specifically?
Why would other countries, that don't share the same anxiety about China as the US, would be troubled with the this?
It's the other way around.
There is a high likelihood that many countries of the "west" (the "global north"?) will outlaw, restrict, or otherwise control LLMs and the tools that enable them.
The US, however, is blessed with the first amendment which makes it extremely difficult to restrain speech in any form - including code.
Why? Based on what?
I've seen absolutely no indication of this.
Only the US are playing this game atm.
It’s going to be a different world, a world where many former allies are not gonna look to the United States first they can no longer afford to.
I dislike the term "sovereign software" because it collapses every aspect of the discussion. It is intentionally dumb, a slogan.
But now that politicians have waved their slogan around, perhaps some actions can be taken.
It's not just the tariffs and imperialist/autocratic aspirations of the current President; it's also the fecklessness of the federal legislature and the revelation via social media that a large cohort of the public hold a negative-sum worldview and enthusiastically endorse bad faith dealing.
It has nothing to do with running open models, especially in hardware within Europe.