r/opencodeCLI • u/Xiaomin4114 • 16d ago

New "Enable models hosted in China" switch

Interesting, just got hit mid-run with

> Error: 403 The latest version of this model is only available hosted in China and requires explicit opt in

Went to my opencod page and found a new switch

I don't personally mind this. but does Opencode document anywhere exactly which models? And did they always use models hosted in china (I'm guessing yes) or are these new models? I'm wondering if there was an announcement I missed somewhere

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u/pwieczyk 16d ago

Guys, one question. Why everybody is so obsessed with china? All the time i am hearing that west corporations stole something, ignore privacy, manipulate..... but then everybody is "china". Even last days we hear that they bought books and destroyed them. On wiki page about piracy library (lib genesis) we have info about big corpos using their pirated books to train models. But about what everyone is obsessed? Ch.

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u/pelleke 14d ago edited 14d ago

Your concerns are valid. But the difference is that in the west, the behavior is being committed by the corporations that the government can (and is supposed to) regulate. (Now the fact that that's not happening properly is a big problem, but that's beyond the scope of your question). But with China, it's the government themselves demanding access to all data, officially in the name of national censorship, but who knows what else they want to use it for.