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I probably will never pay to Sakana, as they are involved in military contracts.

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/politics/defense-security/20...

Yeah, I was trying to parse their "defense policy" https://sakana.ai/company-info/defense-policy.html?lang=en But it seems like lot of words to say we have no policy and we'll just go along with the powers that be. Like they rely on deferring to the Pacifist constitution, which the current administration if moving mountains to try and change. And when it it you can bet they will not want to give up their defense contracts.

Anthropic was very much willing & involved in U.S. military contracts before the falling out with the DoD. OpenAI is actively involved.

https://openai.com/index/our-agreement-with-the-department-o...

I imagine if it was Deepseek partnering with the CCP it would be different?

I was just stating facts about Sakana, and that was enough to trigger you? For the same reason, I don’t use GPT either. At least for now, DeepSeek has no ties to the defense sector. And don’t talk as if the CCP were the devil. The U.S. president is the world’s biggest arms dealer, after all.

Of course DeepSeek is used by the PLA, why would you think otherwise? https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3303512/chi... There can be multiple devils, after all.

> At least for now, DeepSeek has no ties to the defense sector.

Like every company based in China they are under the control of the Chinese state, which is an armed entity known to use violence.

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