Wait. So china pointed out why data centers are bad and were right about it and people agreed?
That's a really weird ass "covert campaign".
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Another beacon of truth from the company of Sam Altman, known for his honesty and forthrightness
Yeah this is why everyone hates sam altman and not because he's just going around saying that AI companies are worth more than the entirety of planet earth combined.
"facts that happen to be true" aka facts
"These dirty commies! Making everyone woke with their factually correct propaganda! They just want lil ol me to not have my american dream!"
~~mis~~information campaign
Aka "News"
I don't think China cares about US that much ngl.
Honestly I wouldn't doubt that they do, supposedly leaders both ours and theirs see us as being in a sort of cold war space race style AI race, and I guess that effectively means we are.
But I for one didn't need their campaign to hate what I can see for myself is an issue, murderbots, surveillance, and dumbing down people further have always been things that I think are "bad."
I mean, in the context of AI development itself, there's the possible angle that China/Chinese AI companies would do this to attempt to slow down American based AI development in an effort to surpass them, but...yeah seems pretty goofy tbh.
They're clearly trying to claw at anything to redirect attention from data centers fucking everyone over.
China already won the game. Their models are on par with Americans and much cheaper.
We can't compete based even just on energy costs.
I use deepseek API and honestly I just don't care about token costs cuz it's so cheap.
China said they didn't want those chips the article is talking about used by their companies out of fear of espionage and Huawei made ones 3x faster.
There's no way the US could catch up with them, they have nothing to fear.
This article is propaganda in itself.
Fair enough. I don't disagree, I was just playing devils advocate. The entire premise is quite ridiculous.
I didn't need some Chinese campaign hatred was my gut reaction.
Actually, at first, for like a week, I was OK with it. Then the affects started piling up. My boss (warehouse middle manager) is AI coding apps to FUCK ME at work (figuratively fuck me ofc, but he's a dickhead. Claims to be communist too [and I'm not even, as unpopular as that is here] and meanwhile he's like "here's some anti-worker bullshit that will help strangle you, isn't it neat, I made it with AI! The same AI that for some reason I think won't replace me first." Fucking kys. I work with the actual product, he tells people "do this." His precious AI will take his job 2y before mine.)
I'm not even on the environmental side of it, though that is a big concern and useful ammo to me being in the anti- position, I cannot stand the dumbing down of humanity, and the murder robots that are officially now a deployed reality as of last week, and the enhanced surveillance. All of that is a reality in my daily life (besides the murder robots but OH BOY if you don't think that's coming to a town near you..), I do not need propaganda to hate what I can freely observe that I hate.
Can I just say that the fact openai just reads our chats....
It is just that I feel like the general public does not fully comprehend it
Ugh, people with those pesky facts, very inconvenient! /s
Those evil Chinese propagandists! How dare they… *flips through notes* tell the truth!?
Eh, propaganda isn't about truth or fiction, it's about manipulating media to push a narrative.
Like every CEO and corpo does every single day, they don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
So we wre listening to OpenAI on this one? Sure prove any of this you lying sack of shit Sam Altman. All these pyschos running companies.
#stoplisteningtoceos
I’m sure it was China and not the fact that AI is causing layoffs, increased prices, and harm to our communities.
OpenAI has published a report
Into the trash it goes.
From trash to trash, dust to dust
Garbage in, garbage out
Free toilet paper 😃😃
Don't use that toilet paper, it's bad for you.
Were they the same accounts that were active during the election? Curious that they're only a problem now.
This 'propaganda' definitely happened if the Open AI scumbags tied to the fascist regime say so
So... So they ran an information campaign?
Anyone saying anything true about the american tech industry, or about anything at all, could be a secret asset in the employ of the Chinese government. They can't be trusted.
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Damn the evil CCCCP and their nefarious plot to *checks notes* tell the truth
The best propaganda is always the truth.
Genuinely why I hate anti-america/anti-capitalism propaganda based off lies. You don't need to lie when just telling the truth is damning. The lies just undermine everything when they're exposed, makes people question even the facts.
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"Facts that happened to be true"
Please, shut the fuck up. Fucking shut the fuck up. I am at the end of my wits with this place.
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PRC ain't good but this is absurd. Fuck ClosedAI
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