Former White House deputy chief @Budowich asks why AI labs want Washington to stop Chinese distillation when they can cut off the token access themselves: "At its core, AI is the distillation of information that exists throughout the world. IP weights shouldn't be stolen, and if there's evidence of that, it should be investigated." "One of the large misconceptions is that we don't already have laws and the ability to enforce them on the books. I think we do." "That doesn't seem to be what…