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How is the Chinese government going to react to AI-run "scam compounds", e.g https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/07/23/the-mayor-of-scamtown ? My first thought was that these could be the trigger for the Chinese government to clamp down on open-weight AI, and that may be the case, but it won't solve the problem---presumably by the time that happens, existing open-weight models will be more than capable enough.
Perhaps this could lead the Chinese to attempt to (work with the US & SEA) to control GPU sales? Or otherwise go after large shady compute clusteres?