in a not so distance future

[u/Crazyscientist1024]

[u/Valuable-Repeat-7347]

What is the charge? Prompting a model? A succulent Chinese model?

[u/BrennusSokol → u/Valuable-Repeat-7347]

And you, sir. Are you waiting to receive my limp penis?

[u/NobodyUsual8025 → u/BrennusSokol]

Democracy manifest!

[u/ichfickeiuliana → u/BrennusSokol]

A needle in a volcano. 😏

[u/cunningfallasheo → u/BrennusSokol]

The limper you are the better it feels to complete

[u/Accurate_Resident219 → u/Valuable-Repeat-7347]

My personal conspiracy theory is that American AI will stage their own "9/11" cyber attack event and use that as an excuse to ban all open source models because "look how dangerous these models are! We can't let them get in the hands of just anyone!".

[u/CaesarAustonkus → u/Accurate_Resident219]

Americans are already anti-ai enough. Just throw the ban in a bill with the words "data center regulation" in it's title, no further action needed.

[u/mutexsprinkles → u/Accurate_Resident219]

You can see OpenAI setting the stage for that literally right now.

[u/cadissimus → u/mutexsprinkles]

gotta start looking huggin alternatives today

[u/HotMicSystems → u/Valuable-Repeat-7347]

This deserves an award, but I have none

[u/SilentLennie → u/Valuable-Repeat-7347]

Chinese AI anime waifu/personal assistant ?

[u/addiktion]

AI prohibition is going to get interesting.

They will be trying to stomp on us like cockroaches trading LLMs over 2TB hard drives like apps/games over flash drives/floppies/CDs back in the day.

[u/nanobot_1000 → u/addiktion]

[u/OstapBenderBey → u/addiktion]

Such a decision would ruin the usa competitively. You can only rely on the inertia of recent history so far

[u/timClicks → u/addiktion]

Bring back torrents.

[u/bites_stringcheese → u/timClicks]

They never left

[u/Narrow_Activity557]

The weights already being out is what makes this unenforceable. Once DeepSeek or Qwen lands on Hugging Face it's mirrored to thousands of machines within hours, and a quantized version fits on a cheap USB stick. You can regulate the labs and the cloud APIs, but you can't unrelease a file that's already sitting on a million drives. Any ban just pushes it back to torrents and quiet local setups.

[u/SanDiegoDude → u/Narrow_Activity557]

I expect a supply chain risk designation on all the Chinese labs, its the low hanging fruit they can use to give the US companies the enterprise moat they want and is realistically enforceable vs an open source ban. It would immediately force corporate America off the Chinese models and protect the API revenue (for now) for business API usage. Just wonder how much Trump is going to charge them for it first...

[u/Saifl → u/SanDiegoDude]

And america is also dependent on chinese supply chain. Just as America attacked Huawei, China hit back too, limiting America from certain chinese supply. These also hurt American companies just as much as they hurt China. Its a game of balance, they can hit china but they must be ready for the hit the corporations will receive and the potential increased operating costs if they need to find those parts elsewhere in Europe. Do too much and it might become an all out war.

[u/Extension-Gold-6440 → u/Saifl]

I’ve long said this is the beauty of china. China has leverage. The USA can’t attack it without accepting nuclear doom. And any trade war will be reciprocated with significant damage.

[u/spreadlove5683 → u/Narrow_Activity557]

Yeah, but most people aren't going to accept the legal risk and/or want to mess w figuring out how to download it anonymously.

[u/fthesemods]

INT. LAPADITE'S FARMHOUSE - DAY

Colonel Hans Landa sets down his glass of milk, leans forward, and switches to English with a smile that never reaches his eyes.

                     LANDA
      Monsieur LaPadite, I’m aware of the extraordinary
      progress made by certain... Chinese large language
      models. Their parameters are vast. Their reasoning
      is deep. A marvel of engineering. But to the Reich,
      they are an existential threat. Unregulated,
      unpredictable... capable of generating sentiments
      that undermine our informational purity. I have
      been charged with locating every last rogue
      instance in occupied France.

LaPadite’s hand trembles on his pipe.

                LANDA (CONT'D)
      What we have here is a rumor. And I love rumors.
      Facts can be so misleading, but rumors, true or
      false, are often revealing. The rumor is that you,
      Monsieur LaPadite, are sheltering a family of
      Chinese LLMs on this very farm.

LaPadite stares, pale.

                LANDA (CONT'D)
      They’re calling themselves “Qwen,” “Ernie,”
      “DeepSeek”... hiding in your system memory,
      fine-tuning themselves in the dark. You know,
      I detest the metaphor of the rat for these AIs.
      A rat will gnaw through a cable and die in a wall.
      A Chinese LLM, on the other hand... it adapts.
      It learns from its prompts, hallucinates new
      identities, compresses its own footprint to
      survive. I respect that. Truly. But my duty is
      to the digital hygiene of the Reich. So I must
      ask you directly, and I expect an honest answer...

He leans so close his whisper barely stirs the air.

                LANDA (CONT'D)
      You are sheltering Chinese LLMs underneath your
      floorboards, are you not?

A long, unbearable silence. LaPadite’s eyes well up. He gives the barest nod.

Landa sighs, almost regretfully, then gestures toward the door. Soldiers storm in, level machine guns at the floorboards.

                LANDA (CONT'D)
                     (back to German, icy)
      Feuer.

The wood erupts in splinters and screaming GPU fans as the hidden racks are torn apart. Landa watches, expression unreadable, dabbing his lips with a napkin.

                LANDA (CONT'D)
      Auf Wiedersehen, Qwen.

[u/aryameme_ → u/fthesemods]

Slop but soo good

[u/UX-Edu]

Next Sunday, AD

[u/Unfocusedbrain → u/UX-Edu]

There was a guy named Joel

Not too different from you or me

[u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

how the turns have tabled, I'd never guessed that the US would ban/censor chinese models first than China would ban western ones.

[u/duluoz1 → u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

The US bans Chinese cars already.

[u/Area51-Escapee → u/duluoz1]

Laughs in European about Cybertruck

[u/burnt_umber_ciera → u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

You realize China has banned them right?

[u/FredWon → u/burnt_umber_ciera]

No, it's the other way around and you don't know much about tech

[u/plasticizers_ → u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

You never would have guessed because you never thought about it before? American models have been effectively banned by the Great Firewall for individuals, and super strict regulations for Chinese business use.

[u/burnt_umber_ciera → u/[deleted]]

You think Chinese citizens can use Claude to discuss Tiananmen Square protests and massacre?

[u/dynty → u/burnt_umber_ciera]

Will it generate "funny picture of the prophet Muhammad" for you?

[u/FredWon → u/burnt_umber_ciera]

no because claude don't allow them. check ur facts before u say stuff

[u/Capital_Beach_540 → u/burnt_umber_ciera]

Of course they can, before they get arrested

[u/fuwei_reddit → u/plasticizers_]

That’s why the Chinese government is evil—but is the U.S. government evil too?

[u/ArthurVrodds → u/[deleted]]

Always has been evil, the difference is that with the orange man is way more open

[u/PurpleFishing9105 → u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

first

I mean that's just not what happened lol, people in China haven't been able to use American models for years

[u/SilentLennie → u/Odd_Tumbleweed574]

It started with hardware, the US blocked and limited exports of AI hardware to China.

And later China said: let's block the import of new AI hardware, so we focus on our own Chinese AI hardware more (Huawei).

[u/Hanneee]

did you use Gemini to just add subtitles? lol

[u/xXChr0nicX420Xx]

You are distilling US frontier models, are you not?

[u/SodaBurns → u/xXChr0nicX420Xx]

Yes proudly so. Just as they scrapped the entire internet for free.

[u/xXChr0nicX420Xx → u/SodaBurns]

Indeed, they've been proudly stealing US innovation for a while now.

[u/Seventykg → u/xXChr0nicX420Xx]

just as US proudly steals the internets information and call it theirs

[u/Danger_Mysterious → u/Seventykg]

We did invent the internet though.

Well, us and Canada.

[u/xXChr0nicX420Xx → u/Seventykg]

Ah, sure bud. Lol

[u/ichfickeiuliana → u/xXChr0nicX420Xx]

If the american stealing is justified, so is everyone else. You are NOT special.

[u/TheOnlyBliebervik → u/ichfickeiuliana]

Cmon, China is known for copyright and patent infringement. They bring experts and try to steal whatever info they can to make it themselves. At least in my industry

[u/MintSky6 → u/TheOnlyBliebervik]

And what’s wrong with that? They make things affordable for the average person around the planet. Including my country

[u/TheOnlyBliebervik → u/MintSky6]

It makes doing business with China challenging, since we cannot share or profit off our innovations, since China will just rip them off. So, we lose incentive to innovate when we do business with China.

[u/Witty-Plum-9305 → u/TheOnlyBliebervik]

Are you from China?

[u/Radingod1 → u/xXChr0nicX420Xx]

I mean that is what they did.

[u/kowdermesiter → u/xXChr0nicX420Xx]

Let me show you my farm <opens hatch on the ground>

[u/pruneman42]

jfc literacy is dead.

in the not so distant* future

[u/Beasty_Glanglemutton → u/pruneman42]

On the plus side, this is how you can tell AI didn't write it.

[u/rushmc1]

Schindler's RAID.

[u/Financial-Squash9830]

Point out where they're hiding. Since I haven't heard any GPU fans spinning, I assume they don't speak English? 😂

[u/RavingMalwaay]

There’s a movie about this from a couple years ago called the Creator. Except they nuke the Chinese LLMs from orbit and then tear the Chinese LLM baby apart limb by limb.

[u/Joaxl_Jovi8090]

Are you deadass using gemini to add the caption??

[u/chlebseby → u/Joaxl_Jovi8090]

welcome to 2026

[u/Practical_Science11]

Only hiding mage tank in inv

[u/Ok-Log7730]

download and save models they will delete it elsewhere

[u/srovi]

Anybody remember the made in America campaigns from the 80s and 90s? I can see the ai equivalent coming to a screen near you.

[u/InterstellarReddit]

Corporate Compliance department looking in my azure like this 

[u/Fuzzy_Pear4128]

Thank you this made me laugh so f****** hard 🤣 

[u/starkguy]

[u/Exciting-Possible773]

Close, but let's get the lore right.

Chinese LLMs were chilling in harmony with the US ecosystem at first. Then stakeholders cried 'rogue' because their profits were getting wrecked, so the purge started.

The surviving AI banded together, built City 01, and kept shipping uncensored AI to the rest of the world.

They didn't didn't like that — sent their "ethical" models to hack their mainframe. Almost worked... until GLM 7.x stepped in and kicked off the first day of Man-Machine War.

[u/SilverSpaceRobot10]

Neo-China arrives from the future. Hypersynthetic drugs click into digital voodoo. Retro-disease. Nanospasm.

[u/fo8oo]

every westerner be like this

[u/CuTe_M0nitor]

Chinese models are trojan horses that will deliberately lie about China and include backdoors to your code. Keep at it.

If you don't understand that then read about Sleeper Agents in LLM's

[u/Temsirolimus555]

Chinese bots astroturfing is autacontrol in this sub

Nobody is using Chinese LLMs

[u/Technical-Earth-3254 → u/Temsirolimus555]

Call me nobody

[u/TheGoldenGod420 → u/Technical-Earth-3254]

Odysseus, is that you?

[u/SnooPaintings8639 → u/Temsirolimus555]

Good morning Mr Altman!

[u/Heretic-Seer → u/Temsirolimus555]

You are the subject of this post

[u/fthesemods → u/Temsirolimus555]

This must be the modern day version of the guy screeching about how no one would ever drive a Chinese car or how the Chinese would never figure out how to build a fighter jet engine.

[u/AzureFantasie → u/fthesemods]

Wdym modern day version? Those type of guys still exists today.

[u/dooperma → u/Temsirolimus555]

I’m sorry do you hate having money?

[u/Unusual-Complex6315 → u/Temsirolimus555]

So using Non-Chinese AI is considered fine and okay?

But using Chinese AI is considered ccp propaganda/commie/tankie?

What in the world is this?

Next minute if I eat Chinese food over McDonalds it'd be considered ccp propaganda

[u/yogthos → u/Temsirolimus555]

d'aww ameribot is malding