US Firms Sell Expert-Written Training Data to Chinese Labs Despite GPU Export Curbs
lol2funneeee · reddit · 2026-09-29
A Forbes report reveals that US data companies supplying OpenAI and Anthropic are also selling advanced training datasets — expert-written tasks, evals, and coding data — to Chinese labs. The post highlights the contradiction: Washington treats high-end GPUs as strategic assets under export controls, yet advanced datasets flow freely, undercutting the stated goal of slowing rival labs.
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