Comment by binary0010
9 hours ago
I think most of us know why they're doing it. We are just very pleased with it regardless.
1. I get great products for nearly free 2. Anthropic/openai/etc will hopefully be destroyed since they stole everyone's work and are trying to capitalize on pure theft.
Win-win. The why of it is not really that relevant.
>We are just very pleased with it regardless
You don't trust the multi-billion dollar behemoth, but you trust the militarized multi-trillion dollar behemoth to play 'robin hood'?
i can't get my brain around the mental loops here.
If you don't think Anthropic and OpenAI are multi-trillion dollar militarized behemoths you need to catch up on some news.
Both are planning $trillion+ IPOs this year. OpenAI is collaborating with the Department of War, and Anthropic is under intense pressure to do the same and their top model is being held hostage right now. This week, the Department of War wrote a statement that xAI should not be held accountable for environmental laws because Grok is a vital weapon system of the US and was used to fire over 2000 missiles at Iran. The pentagon's statement mentions there are 3-4 such models so you may be able to guess which they are.
I don't get it? I use the open weights deepseek on opencode Go hosted in the us/etc.
What are the mental loops here?
I would genuinely like to know if I'm missing something.
> You don't trust the multi-billion dollar behemoth, but you trust the militarized multi-trillion dollar behemoth to play 'robin hood'?
Nobody's trusting anyone, we're just enjoying the benefits of true competition much like the working middle class gained benefits between the ideological competition of the Cold War.