Flo Crivello: commitment

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…Number two, very pragmatically, we don't want Chinese models operating in The US. Today, you know, it breaks my heart because I'm an American citizen. I'm a proud American citizen. I'm a hawk. When I talk to my own product and I'm asking it what happened in Tiananmen, it tells me, I'm sorry. I can't talk about that. That's a problem. You know? Like, these models are eventually subject at the end of the day, they are subject to CCP censorship and CCP policies. You don't want those models. This basically amounts to being the greatest instrument of foreign propaganda on American soil ever. And there is just ask your LLM of choice. Ask Claude. Hey. Tell me the precedent we have of banning American, like, foreign influences in the country. Like, these three radio acts of the twentieth century, like the TikTok thing that just happened last year. Like, we we do that all the time. You know? Then these models are not merely just an instrument of propaganda. They're agentic. They're actually doing stuff in the economy. You don't want the CCP to run chunks of the American economy. Duh. Then finally, even if none of that was the case, maybe those models are playing fair and square. Maybe they're not representing foreign interest. Maybe they're just better. And so here, a lot of people are are, I think, indulging. And I say I say that as a libertarian, but they're indulging in what I call I call naive liberalism. Right? It's like, well, let's beat them in the marketplace then. And I'm I'm like, you know, like, I actually and, again, I said that as a libertarian. Like, I I protectionism is not always a bad thing. I think you do want to protect your your your domestic AI champions. Anthropic can't say that, and they claim, and I believe them, that this is not their intention when they do that. And I will 100% believe that because they've been so consistent for literally the founders. I've been worried about x risk for ten year. Right? So they've been so consistent. But look. I can say that because another topic. Hey. We want local AI champions. Duh. It's a battle of national security. We don't wanna hollow out a base with hollow data or industrial base. You know? So it's not about the principles of the Chinese models, and it's about propaganda. It's about nothing English speaking for our economy. It's about fairness. It's a must it's about protecting. Alright. Let me try to give you…

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