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> If the US decides to unilaterally shut down LLMs, that just means that the rest of the world will route around us. You're talking as if they are some kind of
by vkou 2y ago
> If the US decides to unilaterally shut down LLMs, that just means that the rest of the world will route around us.
You're talking as if they are some kind of nationalized or publically-owned asset, as opposed to a bunch of for-profit, privately-owned silos.
- Sophira 2y agoLocal models are a thing, though. You can run DeepSeek on your local computer. Even if ChatGPT, Huggingface, etc. died, we would still have the models and we would still be able to run them.
- vkou 2y agoLocal models mitigate many of the ethical concerns, but that's not what the end game is. The firms pouring trillions of dollars into them want to own their creative output, and charge rent for access to it.
- EasyMark 2y agoThese cases can set precedents that basically shut down all all future "useful" AI implementations if the judges go too far. You can bet that CCP doesn't care one whit about US copyright law if leads to them leapfrogging us, it will definitely be j-johna-jameson-laugh.gif . I think that's the point of the commenter from 20000ft
- vkou 2y ago> if leads to them leapfrogging us They won't be leapfrogging 'us'. They'll be leapfrogging some privately owned, for-profit business. Frankly, I don't give two shits about that, and I fail to see why anyone who doesn't own one of them should give one. If they want me to have skin in the game, they should share either the profits, or the models. Until they do, it's not 'us', it's 'them'.
- EasyMark 1y agoI care about the USA remaining relevant. If you don't that's fine as well. Have a great life