> And the fusion with a one-party state government that doesn’t tolerate huge swathes of thoughtspace being freely discussed
Ah, so the one party state with two factions in the US repressing anyone who opposes Israel has guardrails. And also, 'accountability'...
> totalitarian
The US is literally, actually committing genocides, kidnapping presidents, pushing wars on every front while repressing dissent at home. If the US is not totalitarian, nobody is. And in a discussion about US models vs Chinese models whent it comes to totalitarianism, excuse my French but f*ck the US. The 'democracy' propaganda would have worked a decade ago. Not today.
Not really. The current SOTAs are already at the point that they can do that. The following models will start to surpass the daily work level. It's a diminishing returns situation just like anything else in tech.
Statistics showed that bots don't change opinions. The only reason why certain establishments scream about them is to explain their election losses. People have very deep biases, and 'randos' blabbering online does not change them. It doesn't matter whether those 'randos' are bots or are real.
It's a mathematical reality rather than 'feeling'. It has become that a few years ago. It becomes even more serious when you consider that the Chinese models are just as good, and they are being just given away to run locally like Deepseek.
Why should anyone feed the SV AI bubble if they can just use cheap Chinese models, even locally if they want to...
> I really think everyone will look back at this time as the golden area of cheap AI.
Chinese models like Deepseek v4 are as good and 10 times cheaper. You can even run Deepseek locally. So no, cheap AI wont be over. Just the US investors won't be able to profit off of the artificial bubble that is there now but wont be in the future.
You can just use Cline in VSCode to get most of the tooling you need - it works with all models. Including Xiaomi's new Mimo with 1m context window and blazing fast speed. It's much cheaper than Claude's biggest plan and with much, much more quota.
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Holy crap...
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