Agreed. And conversely, American models can also just as easily be secretly influenced for bad things, or be more tightly controlled by the government, to corporate America's own detriment.
America's own demise will be made in America, stamped by American laws
Post-IPO I'd trust the American models far far less than the Chinese models.
The most insidious advertising in the world is about to be surfaced as people use LLMs to look for product recommendations.