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No, actually, it's the shitty slop sites. I mean they are usually not made by Big Tech, but it is also not your rando Twitter posts either.
I can run a Chinese model on my sub-1000 EUR GPU right now and generate all the word salad I want. I know, I know, they will make better models. But that's the point, if they lock away better models, all the slop will be made with the worse models.
The point is, all this means is that you can't infinitely train AI on random internet content, and the value of social media as an AI training data source is going down since they are also getting infected with slop. This is actually a good thing, because one way SaaS models could have gotten better than freely hostable ones is by having access to data that is not openly accessible.
These news mean that data they could have used as a differentiator is a pile of hot shit.
you're a peasant and don't even realize it because you're not a part of the "club". same as all those slop sites. they aren't part of the club and so they're lowly peasants.
there were talks of making those Chinese models illegal. not much harder to just say anyone that's not in the club can't have one either, and if you're caught you go to jail.
Yeah, but how do you even make them illegal? Most of them are fly-by-night places, you can use a 600 EUR GPU to generate slop with a 4 gig model, the worse it is the more it hurts data collection.
They couldn't even get rid of phone farms. Cat's out of the bag.
did you know that most Texas Instruments software and hardware is illegal to use if you're not using it for the further advancement of American interests?
and if you're caught you can face prison time and possibly even visit a black site if you're charged under the espionage act.
does it happen? sure. will you get caught maybe not...but they don't go looking for people unless they're bad people.
this current administration will target every average citizen that isn't affiliated with one of the oligarchs before they target the actual bad guys.