Comment by riazrizvi
7 days ago
No I think the point is to choose the best jurisdiction to have cloud hosted data where your data is best protected from access by very wealthy entities via intelligence services bribery. That’s still hands down the USA.
Any evidence for this claim that e.g. Mossad has less penetration into digital systems of USA than it does RF or PRC?
They might have access to any given machine, but they lack the broad scope of general surveillance. If they want to get you, just like most of the other nation state level threats, you will get got. For other threat models, the US works pretty well.
I guarantee that nobody cares about or will be surveilling your private AI use unless you're doing other things that warrant surveillance.
The reason big providers suck, as OpenAI is so nicely demonstrating for us, is that they retain everything, the user is the product, and court cases, other situations can unmask and expose everything you do on a platform to third parties. This country seriously needs a digital bill of rights.
Nobody cares? That seems ludicrous to me. The last 3 decades of business have been characterized most of all by the increased access of private information on people for online business competitive insights. Sure if you are just a consumer you have nothing of real value except in the aggregate, but if you are an up-and-coming business drawing customers away from other businesses, your private AI use is absolutely of interest. Which is why serious businesses here scour the ToS.
The biggest game in town has been managing platforms that give owners an information advantage. But at least the world generally trusts the USA to abide by laws and user agreements, which is why, to my mind, the USA retains the near monopoly on information platforms.
I personally wouldn’t trust a UK platform for example, being a Brit native. The top echelon talent pool is so small and incestuous I don’t believe I would experience a fair playing field if a business of mine passed a certain size of national reach/importance.
EDIT: from ChatGPT, new money entrepreneurs with no inheritence/political ties by economic region, USA ~63%, UK/HongKong/Singapore ~45%, Emerging Markets ~35%, EU ~22%, Russia ~10%