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.
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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.