From Breakingviews - Open-source software braces for trade war
There are two big issues. First is security. As Western democracies use open-source code to accelerate strategic industries like artificial intelligence and, they also gift it to Beijing at a moment when Western AI is being deployed on the frigid battlefields of Ukraine, and the People’s Republic may be mulling military aid to Russia.
The second problem is moral. Chinese developers participating in international OSS machine-learning projects often contribute “model weights”: mathematical formulations that neural networks learn fromon China’s massive and opaquely sourced domestic data reservoir. The most impressive AI models require billions of examples from which to learn model weights and require large upfront investments, so companies generally welcome Chinese contributions.
The move crippled Huawei’s overseas smartphone businesses and telegraphed to China’s tech sector that the American government was willing and able to weaponise OSS. The same year, GitHub began blocking developers in Iran, Syria and Crimea. Today OpenAI, the somewhat misleadingly named Microsoft-backed company behind the popular ChatGPT bot, won’t allow residents of China and Russia to create accounts to use the tool.
Huawei has since built its own OSS operating system called Harmony, and GitHub now faces a Chinese rival startup called Gitee, which enjoys backing from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. On nearly every front, China is moving to duplicate OSS functions, including chatbots and building communities it can control.
Dividing the world into competing open-source camps would mark another reverse for free trade. It would also be a sad endorsement of the old adage that nothing is truly free.Regulators have told major Chinese tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services, the Nikkei news service reported on Feb. 22 citing sources with direct knowledge, causing shares in Chinese companies building chatbots to fall. On Feb.
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