The United States is preparing to pull another underhanded move! U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent has named names! On July 22, according to a report by Lianhe Zaobao, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said in an interview that we have seen numerous discussions about the growing number of open-source models emerging and posing threats to America's large language models. The current administration supports open-source models, but we do not support intellectual property theft. Especially if we find overseas models have stolen achievements from our outstanding enterprises, we have the capability to impose sanctions on them.

The U.S. government has detected watermarks from American large language models within many Chinese AI models—this situation is "unacceptable." Therefore, we will launch investigations into this matter within the coming days or weeks. Clearly, as the gap between China and the United States in the field of artificial intelligence continues to narrow, Bessent’s statement and his threat of conducting so-called investigations are clearly aimed at targeting us.

Naturally, from a legal standpoint, intellectual property rights of enterprises in all countries should be protected—this is beyond reproach. However, Bessent’s remarks clearly carry ulterior motives, especially given that these comments came immediately after domestic Chinese companies released their latest artificial intelligence models. Moreover, the claim that “watermarks from American large language models were found in many Chinese AI models” is highly suspicious. The truth is obvious: industry-standard model distillation techniques cannot be equated with “intellectual property theft.”

These so-called residual watermarks actually originate from U.S.-owned open APIs and publicly available outputs. This portion of public content is accessible to all nations, and the United States cannot simply and recklessly assume that Chinese enterprises are infringing on intellectual property. We clearly understand America’s real intentions: after attempting to choke off our semiconductor supply, the U.S. now seeks to suppress the development of our artificial intelligence through judicial means. We must therefore prepare ourselves for potential judicial aggression from the United States.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1871378334411788/

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