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VulgarExigency

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    Comment #49215885

    You are missing a 0 to the left of the 2 on Deepseek's number

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    Comment #49195613

    > the Chinese system is probably the closest to that - but then the CCP exists :( . a large player that can tip the scales. but for the rest of the businesses - it's dog eat dog - …

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    Comment #49185487

    There's no doubt in my mind that they set up the conditions for their models to escape the sandboxes. "haha oops our incredibly powerful models escaped we need 1 trillion more doll…

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    Comment #49138017

    > The Chinese government has deep pockets. They can probably run at a loss for a long time and don't have to worry about it. It's not as cheap as Deepseek's own API offering, but t…

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    Comment #49131190

    They’re doing the meme. “China is building solar panels/cleaning the environment/building EVs/planting forests/commodifying caviar/releasing high quality AI models for free, But At…

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    Comment #49131177

    https://archive.is/20260731054236/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

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    Comment #49131165

    The agents write much better commit messages than me, at least. They also write better PR descriptions. At work we have a PR authoring skill and we’ve included an instruction for i…

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    Comment #49127748

    But why would "we" want to attack them anyway?

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    Comment #49124094

    And what is their nefarious plan after we get "addicted to cheap shit"?

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    Comment #49122783

    They may reverse course in the future, but the current directive from the CPC is that Chinese AI labs should be open sourcing their models. https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-jinpi…

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    Comment #49122669

    I would bet that Deepseek API pricing is still more cost effective per token than the subscriptions. With the increase in quality Deepseek Flash just got (in my personal testing so…

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    Comment #49081799

    > I draw the opposite conclusion here. In monoliths, someone else might want the code to stay in the codebase. I don't want to ask everyone about it. Everyone's responsibility is n…

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    Comment #49071981

    That sounds like government intervention to me.

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    Comment #49068670

    It's not a failure, that's just how capitalism works.

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    Comment #49067826

    Seems to be working out better than leaving it up to the market

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    Comment #49049889

    > Every historical technology wave ends the same way: the mainframe becomes the PC, the timeshare becomes the laptop, the cloud becomes the edge. The only people who ever argue oth…

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    Comment #49049840

    What the hell are Radicle and Tangled

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    Comment #49027610

    Fair use? Anthropic does not own the copyright to the output of their LLMs. Fair use does not enter into it at all.

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    Comment #49026856

    They should sue Anthropic for this distillation attack

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    Comment #49024621

    But distillation is not theft. They are paying for the usage of the API. It is also not copyright infringement, as AI companies do not hold the copyright for the output of their mo…

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    Comment #49020941

    For those of us with feebler minds than you or him, the name is just full of qualifiers that make no sense.

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    Comment #49020125

    Relevant Slavoj Zizek talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj4cxK-nOTw

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    Comment #49018884

    The same people who say there is a Uyghur genocide are the ones who deny there is a Palestinian genocide. Guess which one there's video evidence of (a horrific, endless amount of e…

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    Comment #49012176

    Why? Should we be held hostage to the whims of these companies and all the investors in the throes of AI psychosis, and let them do whatever the fuck they want, because if we don't…

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    Comment #48986629

    The model that is most optimized around token cost is, in fact, Chinese. DeepSeek is astoundingly cheap by default, but if you use it from Reasonix (the harness optimized around it…