China’s Free AI Isn’t a Threat. It’s a Mirror.
The NYT warns that China’s free AI models are a geopolitical Trojan horse. But the real cost isn’t to your privacy or security β it’s to the business model of American tech monopolies. The ‘but at what cost?’ framing is a tired rhetorical grenade that masks the uncomfortable truth: China is doing exactly what the West claimed to believe in β democratizing technology.