You're equating a government suppressing information for social cohesion with a private company protecting their IP.
They're not merely protecting their weights.
First, they want government to get involved and regulate frontier model development - even stop it completely.
Second, poisoning output of a model configured on the computers of millions of users goes way beyond protecting IP. That's malware.
They're not merely protecting their weights.
First, they want government to get involved and regulate frontier model development - even stop it completely.
Second, poisoning output of a model configured on the computers of millions of users goes way beyond protecting IP. That's malware.