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Chinese state-linked accounts hyped DeepSeek AI launch ahead of US stock rout(reuters.com)
11 points by cscurmudgeon 2y ago|8 comments
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
The US won't ban DeepSeek from US, but more likely we will ban DeepSeek (and other Chinese companies) from accessing US frontier models. > Western tech gets mothballed because we stick our heads in the sand and pretend we are undis
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
The US doesn't need to ban DeepSeek from US The US should only ban DeepSeek (and other Chinese companies) from accessing US frontier models.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Banning worked for China all these decades.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
No need to ban DeepSeek, just ban Chinese companies from using US frontier models.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
OpenAI is taking the position similar to that if you sell a cook book, people are not allowed to copy the recipes into their own book and claim they did it all on their own.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Scraping data is different from scraping outputs from a model.
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OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI(bbc.com)
10 points by cscurmudgeon 2y ago|5 comments
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Now compare this to the legal atmosphere that DeepSeek was created in.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> US relied too much on secrets and menufactured inefficiency You are replying to a thread with the DeepSeek CEO saying the opposite (e.g., DeepSeek built upon transformers, Llama, PyTorch, etc.)
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Human rights vs right to download stuff illegally
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> shaking people down for protection money This is false though. No one pays US money for defense. The 2% spending is on their own industry. The analogy breaks down. If anything, the US pays to support other countries/allies.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
How does Ukraine's work-life balance look like now and before the war? The story of the ant and grasshopper has been taught for ages.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Wasn't ASML started based on research funded by the US? > In 1997, ASML began studying a shift to using extreme ultraviolet and in 1999 joined a consortium, including Intel and two other U.S. chipmakers, in order to exploit fundamen
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
So zero data give by you to support your view that H1B lowers wages (as usual, because data shatters the fake narrative H1B lowers wages). So according to you 1. H1B lowers wages, 2. America is known for making money 3. Yet more pro
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
We do have laws around elections like the equal time rule. Should we remove that too? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Yes, it is. I am doing it right here though, lol.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Yeah, and it is within my rights to call for controls over its ownership. After all, we are a free country. Just like one person getting vaccinated is useless, I want the country to be inoculated from insidious propaganda outside of democra
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Why not just use RedNote? It has all the freedom that is deprived in the US [1]. /s [1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/tech/tiktok-refugees-rednote-...
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
I'm an American too, and I DON’T trust an app that has "china" somewhere in it's org chart. Answer this: who has genocided 10s of millions? Who has crushed Tibet and threatens Taiwan? CCP or Zuckerberg?
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> I don't understand people who correctly point out that TikTok is a "vector for influence of public opinion", but somehow think that's only a bad thing if it's controlled by a "geopolitical adversary".
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US TikTokers moving to RedNote encounter Chinese-style censorship first time(cnn.com)
10 points by cscurmudgeon 2y ago|0 comments
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Which countries have banned TikTok and why?(euronews.com)
1 points by cscurmudgeon 2y ago|0 comments
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
> many it was a revelation that the US government/media complex has been systematically lying to them about China. The rational and data-based take is that the CCP censors negative content about China on Red Book. See [1], [2] and
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Try posting a Winnie the Pooh meme on RedNote.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
That your examples are a century old proves the point about the US govt. being benign.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
Not just about data harvesting though.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
What sentence have others with the same conviction faced in the past? Without that comparison, it is not a “no”.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
“selling” data is not in the same bucket for risk as CCP using TikTok for propaganda.
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by cscurmudgeon 2y ago
1. CEOs meeting the President is not evidence of govt. control. 2. Europe is an ally and under US govt defense umbrella .

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