All the Doomers and hawks are lining up behind this distillation "attack" farce because they want to see open source banned.
It's really as simple as that.
They want to take away your right to choose, and take away businesses' rights to fine tune and make your products cheaper and better.
The end state here, if we let these short-sighted people win, is a horrible place for America:
They will look to ban Chinese models under the guise of national security grounds and conveniently leave only proprietary American companies standing in the USA. The only real "attack" happening is closed source companies attacking open source the same way Microsoft once tried to attack Linux to create regulatory capture.
If you can't win in the market, win in Washington is their strategy.
Do not be fooled by this regulatory capture and saber rattling nonsense. It's a bait and switch.
The goal is to rob you of choice. That's it.
These short sighted policies will make America weaker, not stronger.
These are the very folks whose shoot-us-in-the-foot policies lost NVIDIA 100% of the market share in China, driving it to basically 0%, while kickstarting the moribund Chinese chip ecosystem. It was dead in the water, and now it's awakened from its deep slumbers. Old state sponsored dinosaurs are reborn as emerging chip powerhouses.
The demand for Chinese chips is accelerating and it will only get stronger.
When Jensen is proven right a few years from now (he's the best long term thinker in business today) and you have hundreds of cheap Chinese models running optimized on Chinese chips and those models are now hard to run on NVIDIA hardware you can thank these folks.
If you're banned in the USA from using these models and these chips, do you think the rest of the world will be?
Nope.
They'll happily adopt the cheaper, faster, good enough models that we kickstarted with our short-sightedness. 1 billion people in the west will be banned and using closed/gated/sluggish/censored/surveilled models that destroy your privacy while 6 billion other people use the now dominant Chinese ecosystem and your NVIDIA retirement shares lose money.
When you can't use open source anymore because it gets banned for Americans, you can thank these short-sighted, foolish folks.
When your API bills is a billion dollars and burns your budget in three months instead of 12, you can thank these folks.
When all your personal intimate, personal data flows threw a few tight gateways and choke points mandated by law, you can thank these folks.
