We don't need any AI tools that are leading global change.
OpenAI's ChatGPT, I can't use it;
Microsoft's copilot, it doesn't work;
Google's bard, it doesn't work;
Midjourney, which is painted with AI, doesn't work either.
At the beginning, the internal test has not been officially opened, and we will definitely not be able to use the ** SORA generated by AI. Yes, I'm pretty sure we won't. yes, it wasn't on the market yet, so I knew it wouldn't work, and no one would be surprised by the results. We just have to look at it from a distance to know that this thing is definitely not going to work for us. So the question is, why don't we use these AI tools?
The most straightforward answer, of course, is that the companies that develop these AI tools do not allow users in Chinese mainland to use them. All of the AI tools I mentioned above are currently prohibited from users in Chinese mainland. Of course, they do not say that it is a ban, but that the area has not yet been opened to service. So, why? Is it that Chinese users can't afford to spend? This is obviously impossible. Take Apple's mobile phone as an example, the high-end models released every year sell far ahead in China. These AI tools cost hundreds of dollars a year to use, and there is no unaffordability to consume. Are you worried about piracy in China? Apparently not.
The above AI tools currently provide real-time access entrances, not software in the desktop era, and there is no possibility that you can sell a pirated copy for money, and there is no possibility that the source ** will be plagiarized. Is it to suppress China's AI industry and deliberately not use it for Chinese? Some people think of this possibility from the chip field, could it be that the United States has given these companies an order not to provide services to Chinese users? This is also not true. First of all, the United States has not issued a law prohibiting technology companies from providing AI services to the Chinese market, and it is impossible for these companies to abandon the Chinese market layer by layer. In fact, even in the field of chips, related companies have been wrestling with the U.S. federal government, hoping to lift the export ban on the Chinese market.
The United States has issued a restriction law, and of course enterprises need to comply with it, but when there is no express law, it is impossible to interfere with the operation of the enterprise by greeting and sending notices or making private requests. There is no prohibition on the surface, that is, there is no prohibition, and there is no need to guess blindly. Then, even if the United States** issues a restriction order against China in the field of AI one day in the future, it will only restrict the export of technology to corporate users, but it is impossible to restrict the export of products to individual users. In the field of chips, for example, according to the current restrictions in the United States, a Chinese company wants to order the latest chip of the same model of the Apple mobile phone to produce the banana phone, which cannot be done. But as individual users, we can buy Apple's most advanced mobile phone at the same time as users around the world, which also contains a technologically advanced Apple chip. That's the difference, the former is a company user who buys the technology, and the latter is an individual user who buys the product. The United States may restrict the export of AI technology in the future to suppress China, but it is impossible to restrict AI companies from providing money-making services to individual Chinese users, which is meaningless self-defeat.
The United States may not be friendly, but people are definitely not stupid. After ruling out the above possibilities, we can roughly guess that the reason why users in Chinese mainland cannot use these AI tools is ultimately due to the inability of American companies. According to Chinese regulations, before Internet companies can provide AI services and information services to the public, they need to apply to the relevant authorities in advance and meet the relevant conditions before they can launch the services. The conditions here, the most important thing is safety, and all levels of safety are controllable. Obviously, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft are not capable of meeting the security requirements set by Chinese regulators, so they have no way to legally enter the Chinese market. To avoid embarrassment, I won't discuss whether they are interested in meeting these requirements. Therefore, in order to avoid illegal operations in the Chinese market, the above-mentioned companies took the initiative to close their services for users in Chinese mainland. There is a concept in biology called reproductive isolation : animals that were originally the same species, because of the movement of the earth's crust, were separated in different continental plates, and eventually embarked on different evolutionary paths. After a certain period of time, the offspring of the same origin gradually developed reproductive isolation and became different species.