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Why would someone in China not select Claude? If the people at Claude not notice then it’s a pure win. If they do notice, what are they going to do, arrest you?
by Aeolun 1y ago
Why would someone in China not select Claude? If the people at Claude not notice then it’s a pure win. If they do notice, what are they going to do, arrest you? The worst thing they can do is block your account, then you have to make a new one with a newly issued false credit card. Whoopie doo.
- criemen 1y ago> Why would someone in China not select Claude? Because Anthropic doesn't provide services in China? See https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries
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- dboreham 1y agoCan confirm Claude doesn't even work in Hong Kong. That said I fired up my VPN and...then it did work.
- 0xWTF 11mo agoYeah, I love folks who worry about China having access to models and GPUs. I mean, friend, they have 1.3B people. They could put a crack AI team in every country in the world, tomorrow. But yes, instead, it's far cheaper to let each of those AI teams VPN to any country, all the time.
- glenneroo 11mo agoIf they actually cared, they would just block VPNs. Valve does this when you try to create an account.
- fluoridation 11mo agoIf we're talking about state funding, that's not a problem. You just send a national to live in a residential area and then a team can proxy through that connection.
- puremachinery 11mo agoCommercial VPNs are relatively easy to block, because they use known IP ranges that companies can blacklist. But it's trivial to set up a private VPN with unique IPs such that VPN blocking becomes much less straightforward and much more resource intensive, for example by using traffic pattern analysis or behavioral fingerprinting.
- xadhominemx 11mo agoNot really a relevant issue or concern for a nation state backed hack…
- BobbyJo 11mo agoOr even a regular guy for that matter... VPNs exist.