Agreed. And conversely, American models can also just as easily be secretly influenced for bad things, or be more tightly controlled by the government, to corporate America's own detriment.
The most insidious advertising in the world is about to be surfaced as people use LLMs to look for product recommendations.
Second, the "ALL" qualification is extremely wrong, as only small fractions of these products in the US could ever be sourced to the human rights violations cited here.
You are very confused about the security and what can happen here.
American local models don't hand over data either, which would nullify the point of the comment.