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US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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If Chinese LLMs are successfully making people in the west defend China, then I think we have all the evidence we need to explain why they are giving away their models. The next step of course will be to get people using that ungodly cheap AI on Chinese servers. Which will also be defended because "I would never trust an American Lab".

I'm sorry but USA no longer has any moral superiority over China.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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Free Market vs. planned economy was always mostly talking points, not a consistent ideology imo. Even during the Cold War, American farms were heavily subsidized. The abundant supermarkets were not a product of free markets, they were a propaganda piece. Today the US is pretty far from being a free market. Tax deductions are subsidies. Industry subsidies fund things on the front end, and bailouts are essentially subs…

> The abundant supermarkets were not a product of free markets, they were a propaganda piece. The US has abundant supermarkets to this day. It was overwhelmingly a product of the market economy and remains so. The US has between 45,000 and 75,000 supermarkets (75,000 if you include supercenter stores that also sell groceries). That's not counting smaller specialty food stores. It's a product of consumer spending capa…

The US subsidizes the supply side and the demand side.

On the demand side, the US spends about $100B on SNAP (food stamps) and another $40B on subsidies for WIC (women infants children) and school lunches.

On the supply side, the US is currently directly subsidizing farms $20B and giving disaster relief to the tune of another $30B.

If you want to imagine how well the free market in the US would do, just think about what would happen if Congress cut off those funds.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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So this is the other side of banning American models for non-Americans? And how exactly do they plan on enforcing all of this? Great Firewall of America? This is a complete joke. The malicious clowns behind this should be removed from power and prevented from ever holding any position of power in any form of governance system.

You're aware that many countries are blacklisted from trade with the US already, along with certain segments of existing companies. It just means that enforcement comes with contracts, law, banking systems, etc.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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post #309

So this is the other side of banning American models for non-Americans? And how exactly do they plan on enforcing all of this? Great Firewall of America? This is a complete joke. The malicious clowns behind this should be removed from power and prevented from ever holding any position of power in any form of governance system.

They're probably going to ban GPU exports to China. Which will of course accelerate the development of their own GPUs. More products for us.

China is already going as hard as they can on their own GPUs. When has availability of non-Chinese tech in China meant China didn't ultimately come up with homegrown replacements?

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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Ok I'll bite: what is the obvious thing I'm supposed to be getting from your ellipses? are you implying there is a US-based, third-party provider of xiaomi devices, BYD cars? or are you just referring to hosted providers of those AI models?

> what is the obvious thing I'm supposed to be getting from your ellipses? Well, I'm unsure if it's a correct form of expression in English, but in my native language ellipses can often serve to express speaker/writer feeling of uncertainty about something or some kind of sadness/apathy/similar towards the situation being discussed. It's not about some "obvious thing you should get", sorry for misunderstanding. > or…

The ellipses in American English is often used as an awkward pause, or to indicate trailing off, or sometimes to indicate a sarcasm or passive aggressiveness. The last one seems to be a more modern usage. I have seen older generations use it as an almost soft question mark to indicate uncertainty, which always confused me because I assumed thy were being passive aggressive out of nowhere.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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They're probably going to ban GPU exports to China. Which will of course accelerate the development of their own GPUs. More products for us.

trump just undid the gpu export to china to help jensen make money

Oh, that's great, finally they put that cat back in the bag, surely it can never escape.

Gonna be interesting to see how the ecosystem looks like 2-3 years, I'd be expecting some drastic changes compared to today.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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DeepSeek rose to fame through stolen IP from U.S., and created shell companies to bypass U.S. law. Typical CCP-inspired behavior. The free world needs protection from abusers. I'm sure there's a ton of other abuses they've committed as they race to become China's preferred LLM.

OpenAI and Anthropic also rose to fame from stolen IP from the US. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529404/anthropic-settl...

That's the key difference: from the U.S.

The primary goal is growth of wealth and power for the country, and close loopholes whereby enemy nations steal even more from America.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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I use DeepSeek every day (via VSCode Insiders and Zed Editor). It's very affordable and, while it's slightly behind Claude (not sure how far behind Fable), it suits my working style well. I'm not using unsupervised multi-agent workflows and don't need a library of skills files - I'm writing most of the code and leaning on AI to help with mundane tasks - like; - generating types for APIs - generating boilerplate based…

I've been using deepseek for some development at home and it is really good for the price. It is at the point where i am ok with using it as a tool that i can rely on and not an expensive gadget with flaky uptimes.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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They're probably going to ban GPU exports to China. Which will of course accelerate the development of their own GPUs. More products for us.

China is already going as hard as they can on their own GPUs. When has availability of non-Chinese tech in China meant China didn't ultimately come up with homegrown replacements?

It's just my general impression. They banned China from the ISS, China made their own space station. China's making their own x86 chips, their own GPUs.

As a fellow wheel reinventer, I admire their audacity. It's the sort of thing that makes me wish my country was like China.

Re: US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're probably going to ban GPU exports to China. Which will of course accelerate the development of their own GPUs. More products for us.

China is already going as hard as they can on their own GPUs. When has availability of non-Chinese tech in China meant China didn't ultimately come up with homegrown replacements?

They greatly increased efforts when the US restricted high end exports to them. Unless further restrictions accomplish something worthwhile in the short term they seem unlikely to be of benefit to the US.
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