"Chinese models have backdoors, American ones are pure"? Devs mock the naive narrative
cephaloform · x · 2026-10-27
Developer cephaloform mocks a popular assumption: that Chinese models inevitably contain backdoors while American models are clean and pure by contrast. The post pushes back on the naive trust narrative around US frontier labs and the double standard in model supply-chain security debates.
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