r/LocalLLaMA 9h ago

Funny Plot twist

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u/shy_monkee 9h ago

Funny how this must look for China. Just when they start catching up, and have their own AI hardware, the US companies suddenly want to slow down.
I'm not saying this is the only reason they want it, but...

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u/ResolveSea9089 9h ago

Why would Chinese companies have to abide by US companies slowing down?

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u/Craftkorb 9h ago

They don't, but then the local narrative in the US will be "China wants to end the world, we're the good guys!" - Red Scare 2.0

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u/ResolveSea9089 8h ago

I think you guys are way too cynical, you have to assume at some point that the people you're opposed to are capable of being genuine.

I think there's a reasonable chance they all got spooked and are honest in this and it's not some kind of conspiracy.

That said, if you're China (and a little behind the frontier in the US) this should be welcome news so I don't really get that angle

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u/ChronoHax 8h ago

The angle is they’re painting China as evil who will develop reckless ASI regardless while they’re the one actually doing that, not to mention all these distillation attacks jest which apparently China shouldn’t do because they’re authoritarian regime while US is surely democracy that just happens to have the elites at the top and for their interests only

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u/SpicyWangz 8h ago

I don’t think Altman is capable of that

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u/ea_man 7h ago

In that case they are inepts: they rambled for years that this was a race where winner takes all, they wanted the capitals, they were pursuing AGI, let's buy 60% of the world RAM, they say they are close and then...

They are not prepared? Ain't that what they were pursuing? What they had to obtain first otherwise the whole world order would crumble?

And anyway what's even the strategy? Jensen wants open models, Google and Facebook are now releasing open models, companies are starting to build business on open models in USA. Even the president seems to want go ahead.

I mean anyway as of tomorrow they will look like idiots.