They'll sing praises of the "free market" all day, until it stops going their way.
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> be european
> deepseek gets banned
> "hardfork" it to a european hosted gitlab instance
> see openai and xai tears flowing again
Guess you'll have to jail all the chuds and libs who typed "Tienanmen Square Massacre" so they could post the screenshot on Reddit as some kind of gotcha on China.
Ima download it even harder now
Lmao.
The theory that the builders of Empire were the ones that understood it, and the inheritors of Empire are true believers in the false justification the builders gave and thus defeat itself when given the reigns is coming more and more true.
Cool! Do a flip next.
Might as well go all the way if you're doing stunts.
So we've gone from banning books to banning apps.
could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
So I'd get less for stabbing someone.
And you wouldn't believe how less it gave you for stealing millions from a pension fund.
Yeah that TikTok ban is paying off already! We really saved the children this time!!! WAhooo!!!! \s \s \s
You're supposed to fine companies, not jail people wtf
oh, these third world dictatorships with no consideration for individual freedoms and human rights...
no, wait.
This almost certainly will go nowhere.
Hawley introduced the legislation, titled the Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act, on Wednesday of last year.
For people who see this, I think they meant "last month."
A dying empire doing everything it can to delay the inevitable. We really are watching the beginning of the end of the US hegemony aren't we?
The theory that the builders of Empire were the ones that understood it, and the inheritors of Empire are true believers in the false justification the builders gave and thus defeat itself when given the reigns is coming more and more true.
Prof Richard Wolff has a great analysis of things: https://youtu.be/9u4A0D_Wc9c
As usual. Love that guy.
US doing exactly what they accuse Communist China of doing exhibit 420
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In the United States you get sent to prison if you use the wrong slop machine
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Genuinely great comm and resource.
Didn't I just read an article about Apple wanting to use it. It's open source it can be forked and be American tomorrow. No matter how much Openai crys. This just shows the true lack of any knowledge on the subject. I'm not a fan of the Chinese government as much of the next guy. But the information is out there.
Honest Questions Can a model be open source? Dont we need the data it was trained on to truly be able to reproduce, understand and modify it?
No a model is a model now if you are talking a chat bot or ai app yeah you need the data and that data changes all the time but if I have the model I can supply my own and get simalr results to their model if the data I need is the same. The code is right here https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3?tab=readme-ov-file I can get the models from https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-Base and train them further and redistub that model legally. Per
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As well as banning research. Absurd overreach of government and it will accomplish the opposite of what it wants.
It’s definitely not because it’s a competitor to Grok (x.ai) who just spend $6 billon on GPUs or anything
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"American Liberty", ladies and gentleman.
Good thing I've just accepted a faculty position outside the US.
I'll get to move to a country that doesn't persecute academics and I think I'm just beating the crowds on the way out.
Where are you going? I'm currently on last yr of PhD and thinking of leaving, but I don't know if I should abandon the PhD to leave or not. I'd like to finish it, at least do it remotely, but chances of finding work immediately after PhD are slim.
The position is in Germany. It might be out of the frying pan and into the fire given Germany's right wing rise, but that's happening across the western nations and we're all in trouble.
I don't have a ton of advice for you. I defended over 10 years ago, so I'm moving straight into a tenured/permanent position as senior faculty. For an ABD, I'm not sure what the landscape looks like these days.
If you want to make the move, start talking to people. Reach out to people publishing in your field and talk shop. Collaborate with them, talk about the future, and be willing to take a postdoc (or german system W1) position. It's more ramen and a small bedroom, but it's one where there's healthcare and civil rights.
Academia (and most professions) are all about networks. Talk with people, collaborate, and grow that network. Something will come along.
Thank you. I have a family to worry about so can't survive on ramen alone... But I'll look for other countries postdoc and such. I'm a bit scared of moving somewhere I don't know the local language now because of how things are going in the US, if something like this happens and I can't understand their language I'd not even know the dangers.
Nice to see the brain drain of the US in action. I'm glad I don't have to see it's downfall firsthand.
another great day of not being an american
The whole globe is sliding right. It's not a great day for anyone.
Sliding right and left. It's becoming more polarized as Empire decays.
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