Should Congress outlaw DeepSeek and other Chinese AI?
not if it's open source; that would be stupidity at an exceptionally high level, even for Congress
There is undoubtedly Chinese data-gathering going on with models run in China, but if the model is open-source, it can be installed on servers in the West without Chinese access, as is the case with all versions of DeepSeek, in my understanding.
Because it is genuinely open-course, DeepSeek gifted greedy, private Western AI companies (I am referring to “Open”-AI primarily) some coding techniques that vastly reduce the cost of training a model and produce sharper reasoning capabilities as well. Why shouldn’t US citizens use one of these models if it is hosted domestically?
Industry experts advise that “open-source” may not mean that all the coding secrets are revealed, but the argument remains.
It turns out China is neck-and-neck with the US in AI. It is time to cooperate, especially on the ethical use of these increasingly powerful models.
Pray for peace!