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You might feel different if you're a palestinian who's getting american bombs dropped on him, or an afghani collateral damage or...

There is no good guys in general, and whataboutism and making the scope bigger doesn't help.

The thing is that if the models you are building on are open source whether hosted on chinese / american / whatever service at least give you an option to switch provider easier vs a fable / chatgpt 5.6 that gets banned for none americans etc...

2 years ago america would have had the branding/perception advantage but right now that is well and truly gone...

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> palestinian who's getting american bombs dropped on him

So far as I know, there have not been any offensive American operations in the West Bank or Gaza. Do you have sources for any?

> There is no good guys in general, and whataboutism and making the scope bigger doesn't help. The thing is that if the models you are building on are open source whether hosted on chinese / american / whatever service at least give you an option to switch provider easier vs a fable / chatgpt 5.6 that gets banned for none americans etc...

Then it'd make far more sense to use a native open-source AI project than to use Chinese AI. Personally, I've been looking into Mistral AI for my own uses.

> 2 years ago america would have had the branding/perception advantage but right now that is well and truly gone...

Hardly. Let's not pretend that much of the world, particularly Europe, hasn't had a long and storied history of staring down its nose at Americans. At a certain point you just stop caring, regardless of your political persuasion.

1. I said American bombs. I didn't say dropped by American pilots. But provided, directly by the USA to Israel.

2. The whole idea is that open source means you don't have to care about "native". Look up nginx for a great example.

3. America from ww1 ish, definitely after ww2 and until about 2005/10 had a very very good reputation in most of Europe. The obama years gave it a bump up as well So basically for about 80-90% of the last 100yrs.

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