Comment by villish
7 days ago
> Europe, like much of the West, foolishly delegated tech, media, payment systems, etc, to the United States.
No they didn't. Europe has played a role in building all of these. Especially from the software side.
Also anyone that doesn't like the US is free to stop using any American website, device, or service. There are alternatives to everything. For instance I do not like Meta, I refuse to use any of their websites or devices. The domains are blocked on my LAN.
> Anthropic and OpenAI are both very close to getting the US government to ban and fully criminalize the open Chinese models
This is complete nonsense. First of all most Americans don't give a shit about AI companies like it's a sport and those are our teams we have to support. Second the hysteria around AI is mostly from non-Americans that are completely out of the AI race worried about losing access to good models. That is valid, but also it needs to be recognized.
> No they didn't.
Yes, they did. Like, look around. Clearly the Western world foolishly and very short-sightedly allowed the US the reigns on far too many things, to its disadvantage.
It is unwinding, but it turns out that having decades of intertwining takes a while to undo.
>Also anyone that doesn't like the US is free to stop using any American website, device, or service.
What an idiotic, useless bit of pablum to throw in there. Back to 4chan with you.
>This is complete nonsense.
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kim...
> What an idiotic, useless bit of pablum to throw in there. Back to 4chan with you.
You want to hate the US but don't want the personal inconvenience of moving away from the daily sites and apps you use. How are these alternatives to american tech going to get enough users if someone like yourself who seems to have a hate boner for the US can't even leave a message board?
> https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/ai-us-china-open-source-kim...
The orange idiot can say whatever he wants. The first amendment makes any ban unconstitutional. US companies being advised about potential backdoors in the models isn't a bad thing, even if I personally think it's FUD, open weights is not open source.