Your title is overstating your case. If putting AI development under the complete control of the government is a crippling handicap, what do you think China will be doing? China, the country where tech companies like Tencent are 10% commissars? The decision would stifle innovation, but not so much that a nation of plagiarists are going to take the lead.
There is a ton of great AI research and open source models coming out of China. The models from what I’ve seen are usually quite uncensored, at least when inference is run in English. Tencent just released a text to video model that would make Trust and Safety departments in the West piss their pants.
Your title is overstating your case. If putting AI development under the complete control of the government is a crippling handicap, what do you think China will be doing? China, the country where tech companies like Tencent are 10% commissars? The decision would stifle innovation, but not so much that a nation of plagiarists are going to take the lead.
There is a ton of great AI research and open source models coming out of China. The models from what I’ve seen are usually quite uncensored, at least when inference is run in English. Tencent just released a text to video model that would make Trust and Safety departments in the West piss their pants.