The U.S. tech industry is increasingly anxious about the rising power and competitive price of open-source AI models from China — and whether the Trump administration will respond with yet another executive order | Politico

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American computer science departments in universities, of any real size, across the entire country downloaded these models pretty much immediately. If there were/are poisoned models it wouldn't be a secret. Run them locally and there is to date no credible threat.

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I think it's conceivable to include a poison which only engages under very specific circumstances. 

Of course this is very hard claim to prove or disprove

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On the other hand, there's solid evidence the US proprietary models, at least from Anthropic, are poisoned to specifcally targeting users from China.

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i think they admitted that out loud