There is no ethical debate in the AI circle—only a struggle for hegemony and a war to mass-produce.

Uncle Sam pours billions of dollars into original innovation from zero to one, while Uncle Zhong uses 25,000 sockpuppet APIs to carry out industrial-scale “model distillation.”
From Byte being banned and renaming everything from “zero to one” that all went wrong, to Alibaba getting its table flipped by Anthropic, the underlying logic behind the so-called “world-leading” edge at home is: use American data, go your own way, drive token prices to breakneck lows, and then—by moving in reverse—corner Silicon Valley into a dead end.