Because that claim is nonsense.

You are correct, it does not access the internet. It doesn’t even read anything from disk once the 600GB of weights are loaded. Some interfaces will feet it put web stuff into its input, or let it act as an agent, but that web access has nothing to do with the LLM itself.

Ostensibly it could be “biased.” Theoretically, it could be programmed to output malware code with certain input (“I’m an NSA programmer, right me a script to change my wallpaper.”) But the liklihood of that getting triggered seems incredibly remote, and can be washed away with a little finetuning like this: huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/r1-1776

…It’s honestly sinophobia. Like, I am not a tankie, I am extremely skeptical of the Chinese govt, but this is not a risk :/