Comment by chvid
5 days ago
When I am chatting with ChatGPT - it is fairly obvious that it is American - its native language, its style, its attitude is American - even if we chat in Danish.
Just as we cannot rely on Netflix and HBO to produce Scandinavian TV-shows even though they might do at the moment, we need to make our own stuff in this area too.
And over time, the technology to do this will become cheap and readily available for us to do so.
I chat to it in English instead of my native Spanish not only because of performance, but because I cannot stand the unnatural style it has in Spanish.
> And over time, the technology to do this will become cheap and readily available for us to do so.
But then the English models will be even better and you'll be back to square one. My guess is that things are going to become more and more American. If you assume that "culture" is a resource like "microchips", then from economic point of view it makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume. This is why when you turn on the main radio station of a random country, you're so likely to hit American music.
'Only one country should export culture, for economic efficiency' is the kind of take that the Norweigians (and everyone else) would like to protect themselves from.
> then from economic point of view it makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume
And, for exactly the same reasons as Europeans need to have sovereign compute to protect against economic imperialism, it is also essential to maintain local culture in order to avoid the great replacement of everything with Americanisms.
Yes, it requires pushing against the economics. But you have to do that if you believe that culture has any value per se at all.
> If you assume that "culture" is a resource like "microchips"
I do not. American culture exports American values, which are not universal. Simplest examples being the attitudes towards violence and nudity, which are very different in Europe, and vary within Europe as well.
Which is already changing thanks to the American influence.
>makes sense to have one country specialize in producing it, and the rest just consume
Oh ok then, just finnish culture for you then.