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And where is your certificate to back up your legal opinions? Do you retain people who are certified? Do you have deep enough pocket to be able to outlast the government in legal battles? When the answer to any of the above question is no, then your opinions essentially don't matter. See how even the legal protection you are supposed to have is being gate kept from you?
And after my previous reply to you, someone else shared a few Twitter posts, showing what I am telling you is aligned with what people driving the policies already have in mind:
The issue with your thinking and those on /r/localllama is the faulty assumption that psychopaths will behave reasonably. What I am telling you is my prediction on how psychopaths will actually behave.
I am talking about regulation on commercial activities. You are talking about total ban. We are not talking about the same thing.
If you are already thinking of ways to skirt it, then you are essentially admitting that the US government can regulate. Whether you think this is justified or enforceable is altogether a separate discussion.
You and people on /r/localllama are acting all tough right now, but everyone will become the cheem on the right when they wake up one morning and aren't able to buy Chinese tokens through VISA.
Unless people are content with using outdated models, going local won't work. Nobody aside from multi-millionaires could afford the hardware to run SOTA Chinese models, and it would likewise be super expensive hosting Chinese models on American clouds. If I were you, I would waste less time debating about something that I have no control over, and load up years worth of tokens with Chinese LLM providers instead.
