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Comment by epistasis

19 hours ago

Post-IPO I'd trust the American models far far less than the Chinese models.

The most insidious advertising in the world is about to be surfaced as people use LLMs to look for product recommendations.

It's wild that people are so lost in the sauce of social media that they have no qualms handing over all their data to an authoritarian ethno state with a single ruler who appointed themselves for life with unrestricted unilateral control over every aspect of the state. And here we are calling for collapse because mom might get recommended Gain instead of Tide.

  • Sorry, how does running a local model hand over my data?

    You are very confused about the security and what can happen here.

    • The context here of comparing trust between American models (which are mostly centrally hosted) to Chinese models (rather than "local" models) implies trust levels in who is hosting.

      American local models don't hand over data either, which would nullify the point of the comment.

  • What's even more wild to me is that basically ALL modern electronics and all modern batteries are made from raw materials sourced by forced and child labor (and sometimes both)... yet the vast majority of the entire world just turns a blind eye to it.

    https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/gKMYRcEIeE9j.png

    • This is very confused, first the world does not turn a blind eye, and by having US purchasers of these products the US is actually forcing a big change in the standards for the better due to purchasing power. In particular the US has avoided huge amounts of potential purchase in solar, largely under the justification of avoiding forced Chinese labor.

      Second, the "ALL" qualification is extremely wrong, as only small fractions of these products in the US could ever be sourced to the human rights violations cited here.