THEY'RE DAMAGING AI COMPETITIVENESS BY COMPETING AGAINST OUR AI WITH THEIR AI!!!!
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He says they're faking the low cost, but it's open source. You can download and run it yourself.
but you can't train it yourself
Are the robbers and thieves now infighting?
NOICE!
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Everyone's memeing but it looks grim.
Having AI turn into an arms race between China and the U.S. will only accelerate its growth. For a while it looked like AI was stagnating, the bubble might burst, and people were tempering their expectations of what we had. That just got thrown out the window. I can't think of any way you could damage the competitiveness of what China is offering, so U.S. tech now have to improve and there will probably be greater support from the U.S. government to see that improvement.
People simply don't win in the long term when these improvements will go towards taking their jobs.
The US is always in competition with someone else to try and prove how great they are. It's hard for everyone else to get upset about it at this point, whether the competition is internal or external it really doesn't matter. It's just capitalism. It was always going to get pushed to the very limit of what it's capable of, and it was always going to threaten people's jobs. This doesn't change anything.
If anything this is a positive move because at least when the AI replaces us normal people, we will actually be able to make use of it rather than it just being the sole domain of the mega corporations.
Assuming that poster is from the US, it is amazing that he calls another country a "cop state".
He's a well-known smug idiot tech bro, and invests in open AI so you can pretty much ignore everything he says.
Also what's more American than taking a loss to under cut competition and then hiking when everyone else goes out of business
It is capitalism when American parasite does this, mate.
Now apologize!
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US corporate sector throwing a tantrum when it gets beat at it's own game.
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It's models are literally open source.
People have this fear of trusting the Chinese government, and I get it, but that doesn't make all of china bad. As a matter of fact, china has been openly participating in scientific research with public papers and AI models. They might have helped ChatGPT get to where it's at.
Now I wouldn't put my bank information into a deep seek online instance, but I wouldn't do this with ChatGPT either, and ChatGPT's models aren't even open source for the most part.
I have more reasons to trust deep seek as opposed to chatgpt.
Yeah. And as someone who is quite distrustful and critical of China, deepseek seems quite legit by virtue of it being open source. Hard to have nefarious motives when you can literally just download the whole model yourself
I got a distilled uncensored version running locally on my machine, and it seems to be doing alright
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to make american ai unprofitable
Lol! If somebody manage to divide the costs by 40 again, it may even become economically viable.
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nO. STahP! yOUre doING ThE CApiLIsM wrONg! NOw I dONt liKE tHe FrEe MaKrET :(
what's that hissing sound, like a bunch of air is going out of something?
That's the inward drawn air of bagholder buttholes puckering.
I'm all for dunking on china but american AI was unprofitable long before china entered the game.
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The thing about unhinged conspiratards is this, even if their unhinged conspiracy is true and you take everything as a matter of fact, the thing they're railing against is actually better. Like on this case. Deepseek, from what we can tell, is better. Even if they spent $500Bil and are undercutting the competition that's capitalism baby! I think ai is a farce and those resources should be put to better use.
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Why is everyone making this about a U.S. vs. China thing and not an LLMs suck and we should not be in favor of them anywhere thing?
We just don't follow the dogma "AI bad".
I use LLM regularly as a coding aid. And it works fine. Yesterday I had to put a math formula on code. My math knowledge is somehow rusty. So I just pasted the formula on the LLM, asked for an explanation and an example on how to put it in code. It worked perfectly, it was just right. I understood the formula and could proceed with the code.
The whole process took seconds. If I had to go down the rabbit hole of searching until I figured out the math formula by myself it could have maybe a couple of hours.
It's just a tool. Properly used it's useful.
And don't try to bit me with the AI bad for environment. Because I stopped traveling abroad by plane more than a decade ago to reduce my carbon emissions. If regular people want to reduce their carbon footprint the first step is giving up vacations on far away places. I have run LLMs locally and the energy consumption is similar to gaming, so there's not a case to be made there, imho.
Changing your diet is more impactful than stopping international travel.
I'm going to fact check you, and you are not going to like it. But I hope you are able to learn instead of keeping yourself in a dogma.
Let's assume only one international flight per year. 12 hours. Times 2 as you have to come back . So 24 hours in a plane.
A plane emits 250 Kg of CO2 by passenger by hour. Total product is 250x24. Which equals 6 tons of CO2 emited by one international travel.
Now we go with diet. I only eat chicken and pork (beef is expensive). My country average is 100Kg of meat per person per year. Pork production takes 12 Kg of CO2 per Kg of meat. Chicken is 10, so I will average at 11 Kg. 11Kg of CO2 multiplies by 100Kg eaten makes 1.1 tons of CO2.
6 is greater than 1.1. about 6 times greater give it or take.
So my decision of not doing international travel saves 6 tons of CO2 to the atmosphere per travel. While if I would completely take the meat I eat from my diet I would only reduce 1.1 ton of CO2 per year.
Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-eating-meat-bad-for-the-environment/a-63595148 https://www.carbonindependent.org/22.html
I still think the numbers will be skewed heavily by those that travel internationally 0 times per year, but I think your math is accurate from what I can tell. Essentially, less air travel is good if you regularly travel, otherwise not so much.
How's the math turn out if people use alternate means of travel? Is traveling by boat still a thing?
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In other words: "Stop scaring away the dumb money!"
Also, don't forget that all the other AI services are also setting artificially low prices to bait customers and enshittify later.
free market capitalist when a new competitor enters the market who happens to be foreign: noooooo this is economic warfare!!!!!
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I don't understand why everyone's freaking out about this.
Saying you can train an AI for "only" 8 million. It is a bit like saying that it's cheaper to have a bunch of university professors do something than to teach a student how to do it. Yeah and that is true, as long as you forget about the expense of training the professors in the first place.
It's a distilled model, so where are you getting the original data from if not for the other LLMs?
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We literally are at the stage where when someone says: “this is a psyop” then that is the psyop. When someone says: “these drag queens are groomers” they are the groomers. When someone says: “the establishment wants to keep you stupid and poor” they are the establishment who want to keep you stupid and poor.
We have been at this stage at least since the cold war my friend. Every accusation is an admission. They cannot allow the people at large to imagine a world without the evils incentivised by capitalism.
AI is either a solution in search of a problem,
or it's the next scheme designed to gobble up as much VC money as possible and boost NVIDIA stock value, now that the Cryptocurrency bubble has passed.
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I wasn't under the impression American AI was profitable either. I thought it was held up by VC funding and over valued stock. I may be wrong though. Haven't done a deep dive on it.
Okay, I literally didn't even post the comment yet and did the most shallow of dives. Open AI is not profitable. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/openai-sees-5-billion-loss-this-year-on-3point7-billion-in-revenue.html
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ChatGPT's $200 plan is unprofitable! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
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