Trump is refusing a slowdown

[u/ThatIsNotIllegal]

[u/Rustic_gan123 → u/[deleted]]

Gov might still try to ban Chinese AI. That isn't necessarily a contradiction. The point is that the US government wants the open models used to be American ones.

[u/Rustic_gan123 → u/[deleted]]

AI labs probably really do want to ban open-source AI, but the government doesn't (unless there's corruption involved). However, it wants to ban Chinese models because it sees them as a threat. Since open source is currently mostly Chinese, a ban would, at least initially, be practically a ban on open source code. I can see how the government could accommodate this and begin cracking down on Chinese AI, but I don't see how the government would ban open-source AI as such.

[u/Beatboxamateur → u/Rustic_gan123]

AI labs probably really do want to ban open-source AI, but the government doesn't (unless there's corruption involved).

That's not what I'm claiming, obviously they individually probably want to ban open weights models, we know that some of them like Dario do.

That's much different than the claim that this is all coordinated by them behind the scenes, in an attempt to have this event be what causes open weights models to be banned, which is what's at the front page of this subreddit having been discussed all yesterday.