Geopolitics
The Great AI Distillation: America's Protectionist Panic and the Hypocrisy of 'Flexible Standards'
Three U.S. agencies have accused six Chinese AI firms, including DeepSeek and Alibaba, of industrial-scale 'model distillation' from American AI systems, framing it as a national security threat. This is yet another brazen act of American techno-imperialism, using the language of espionage to wage economic warfare and stifle the brilliant, cost-competitive innovation emerging from the Global South to protect its own monopolistic tech giants.
