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Absolute numbers with BigTech are never significant. Only viable paths for remedy anre outright divestment or revoking financial license in Sweden.

The former is nigh impossible, the latter is fairly trivial with sufficient will.

Europe’s biggest problems are a cultural superiority complex (we’re better than brutish Americans who only care about money), combined with deep seated racism (we’re better than our former colonies, eg China), and a heavy dose of denialism (buying cheap Russian oil could never bite us in the ass).

Thinking you’re superior to everybody else and sticking your head in the sand isn’t exactly the recipe for success.

There’s also a huge talent drain: many Europeans who realize the superiority complex isn’t built on solid foundations - particularly in science, engineering, research, and development - leave to the US because they want to be with the best, which aren’t solely Americans, it’s people from around the world who aggregate in the US.

Europe has a brief window to be the new global talent hub as MAGA is attempting to destroy the US edge from within, but Europe is absolutely blowing it with mini-MAGA movements instead.

Europe has a lot to offer, but it needs to get real about where it stands in the world.

Lack of air conditioning is leading to massive excess deaths among the elderly during heat waves.

Culling out the elderly during the annual heat waves is quickly becoming a European tradition.

That said…refusing to adopt AC may be Europe’s de facto solution to the pension crisis!

I thought it was was foolish insanity, but now I understand it’s just sound pension policy.

When it comes to avoiding the worst impacts of the current catastrophic path we’re on, “nothing will work, but everything might”.

Do it all.

”I built the Torment Nexus and I’ll got was a few million dollars and this lousy job.”

How much of this is RL’ing a good coding model on every CVE ever?

I lived and worked in SV for several years. Basically people don’t see anything they do as wrong and have no concept of shame.

It’s a combination of learned obedience to authority and greed.

You just take a bunch of people who made all A’s in school by doing whatever they were told by authority figures, give them new authority figures who give them new “homework” (monetize suicidal ideation), and the money to buy a car they can post on Insta and you’ve got a BigTech workforce.

To be honest it’s pathetic to watch up close.

…Or the ML team is just going to eat all those juicy screen recordings of those teams doing their jobs and can them in 12 months.

Your days are numbered, Zuck will get rid of you the second you’ve finished producing training data.

…and the guy shuffling the cups is Dave Chappell’s crackhead character.

My theory has always been Trumps grand con was acting like what poor people thought a rich person was like, Elon acts like what morons think a genius is like.

Telltale slop: "And honestly? I didn’t see it coming."

Very much wish I could.

Oh he did worse than that, far worse.

The majority of that revenue comes from violating data protection law and regulators and litigants are slowly racking up a series of wins which will gut ads margins.

There is no Plan B, they are just going to break the law until they can’t and there’s zero clue what happens after that.

They sat back and let OpenAI kick their ass precisely because ghouls like Prabakar call the shots and LLM are not a good display ads fit.

The best parallel for Google is Kodak.

To appropriate a quote “you’ll take my guns from my cold dead hands”.

There’s only one thing the agree on in DC: defense spending is the most important line item, and everything else is secondary.

Also, turns out when you have the ability to take virtually anything by force the concept of “deficits” is a bit fungible.

Exactly, flatten those in the first five minutes and that “shield” is gone.

Invasion by CCP followed by full ceasing of chip shipments.

These are military assets, the Pentagon gets what it wants.

That’s why CHIPS was passed, the brass told Congress to get them some fancy new fabs, and like all requests the Pentagon makes, they got it.

Long term it doesn’t matter if these fabs are hugely profitable relative to other locales, we’ll find a way to keep them producing.

The Japanese figured out how to build and manage American auto factories, I’m hopeful the Taiwanese will figure it out as well.

Exactly, at the root a lot of this about ATT.

I’m saying it’s not worth anything because it is a Bing wrapper. The other “products” are just to drive more traffic to Bing ads. There’s no there there.

This was the same premise when AOL released an “anonymized” set of search data and it was easy to find the original people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release

Correct, that would be full communications content protection. This is not that, this is a pretty half assed product with a misleading set of promises.

Either use one of the many open models that beat GPT-3.5 and you have a real, and better!, product.

I literally have no idea what the point of this is, or why not make the actual step of rolling out a real private LLM. It’s literally inferior to what Mixtral provides right now, under Apache license.

“A number of products” that make no real revenue other than driving users to…Bing ads.

The discussion here is what you would get if bought DDG, and the answer is…very little.

They could literally run Mixtral or Llama on their own machines and have total control. This is basically a ChatGPT VPN.

Give me another one then? It’s a search engine with no search index. It’s an ads supported site without an ads network. What is it then if not a wrapper?

It’s just a Bing wrapper with Bing ads. What is there to sell?

That’s a pretty disingenuous framing. Obviously the content of the communication- what you ask the chatbot - can totally be personally identifiable, and is stored.

You aren’t providing communications content privacy, you’re providing a meta data proxy which is not remotely the same.

Hate to break it to you but there’s a thousand court cases a day precisely because “specific legal definition” is a surprisingly flexible concept depending on context. Likewise when new technologies emerge it often requires reappraisal and interpretation of existing laws, even if that reappraisal is simply extending the old law to the new context.

But it’s also a bit absurd in a sense - let’s say you have all of Meta’s code and training data. Ok, now what? Even if you also had a couple spare data centers, unlimited money, and an army of engineers, you can’t even find enough NVIDIA cards to do the training run. This isn’t some homebrew shit, it’s millions upon millions of dollars of computational power devoted to building this thing.

I think at a fundamental level people have to start thinking a little differently about what this is, what open really means, and the like.

I don’t understand how the idea of open source become some sort of pseudo-legalistic purity test on everything.

Models aren’t code, some of the concepts of open source code don’t map 1:1 to freely available models.

In spirit I think this is “open source”, and I think that’s how the majority of people think.

Turning everything into some sort of theological debate takes away a lot of credit that Meta deserves. Google isn’t doing this. OpenAI sure as fuck isn’t.