It is likely that the US will get a live feed from each AI provider that they are inspecting in real time to identity things of interest, terrorist attacks or foreign government planning or even foreign companies competitive to key US companies.

It will give them access to the though process in those companies as well as much of their text-based IP (source code, docs, meeting transcripts, etc)

Also if you are using local AI that you didn’t train yourself you can never be sure it doesn’t have purposeful biases in its reasoning that may disadvantage you - such as directing you away from certain plans or ideas or patents etc.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ujila1/anthropic...

> No! Don't install that lodash thing without explicit approval from IT. Oh, you want a license for Charles Proxy? Gee, I dunno... we've got a budget to maintain.

Employers in 2023:

> No! You can't use ChatGPT at work – it's a security risk.

Employers in 2024:

> Okay, you can use Github Copilot I guess, but you'll have to endure boring corporate training on what you're allowed to do with it.

Employers with dollar signs in their eyes in 2025:

> We attended a seminar about vibe coding. Why aren't you dumbasses keeping up with the times? Use Claude Code for everything! Don't write any of your own code anymore. We don't even really care if you use yolo mode. Just review code and push 10x more features! Use unlimited tokens! Money printer go brrrrr.

Employers in 2026:

> You mean giving one or two companies full autonomous access to our workstations while stupifying our engineers wasn't a sound business plan?

Of-course USA is collecting everything, not just from China but everyone.

And same with every one else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759754

This is a double edge knife. In this specific instance this was absurdely important for that kid's life, but this work both ways. What if the US authorities deemed it necessary to snoop on foreign governments and citizens for political reasons, now leveraging AI to do it at an industrial scale?

One thing is certain though is that assuring privacy isn't top priority for any cloud provider. Companies doing cutting edge, sensitive work should be wary.

Interesting to notice that we can do the same with these models.

from Teslas not allowed parked around sensitive areas in the city, to blocking a (very famous and quite well-made) Russian antivirus, or Huawei communication stack.

Anthropic is not doing itself any favours with their recent (?) antics [1], so it is completely well-founded to do this imho. regardless, harness as a moat is not quite as established as the underlying models to the same extent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734373

Claude Code is neither and it is literally info stealing malware.

That looks a no-nonsense decision, isn't?

They seem to have given themselves license to do what they like, but _God forbid_ they're called out for acting less-than-honourably.

Most adults around the world can associate actions and consequences. The incomprehension and entitlement here speaks volumes about the moral and emotional maturity of the Chinese Communist Party and their political system.

use claude-code see how good it is send 100k bots to distill fable 5 (GLM 5.2 is the result of this) release Zcode ditch claude-code ban claude-code