Anthropic's three policy recommendations — restricting chip sales to China, punishing distillation, and requiring regulatory approval for models — would add up to de facto banning or slowing open-weight models, constituting regulatory capture.
While Anthropic publicly says they don't want to ban open-weight models, their three policy proposals — no chip sales to China, anti-distillation rules, and a model approval process — would collectively restrict competition, especially from Chinese open-source models.
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Rory: While in public um anthropic are saying we don't want to ban open weight the truth is the combination of saying we don't want to sell stuff to China chips to China we can argue both sides of that actually second we want to really punish people for distillation right and then the third point they made is we want some kind of regulatory process to approve models right that's the recommended thing from the letter today and there's no doubt in my mind that the third one in particular, can you imagine a regulatory process for approving models that ultimately approves all those Chinese open source models? It is a subtle form of regulatory capture.
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