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[–] ebu@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

consider this paragraph from the Wall Street Journal:

DeepSeek said training one of its latest models cost $5.6 million, compared with the $100 million to $1 billion range cited last year by Dario Amodei, chief executive of the AI developer Anthropic, as the cost of building a model.

you're arguing to me that they technically didn't lie -- but it's pretty clear that some people walked away with a false impression of the cost of their product relative to their competitors' products, and they financially benefitted from people believing in this false impression.

[–] ebu@awful.systems 22 points 4 months ago (15 children)

i think you're missing the point that "Deepseek was made for only $6M" has been the trending headline for the past while, with the specific point of comparison being the massive costs of developing ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, et al.

to stretch your metaphor, it's like someone rolling up with their car, claiming it only costs $20 (unlike all the other cars that cost $20,000), when come to find out that number is just how much it costs to fill the gas tank up once

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 5 months ago

i would love to read someone more familiar with historical fascism and imperialism who is able to articulate the link between the two. like, an analysis of imperialism as the construction and maintenance of borders across which exploitation is enforced and economic value is extracted -- paired with the observation of fascism as the attempts to construct borders "across peoples" from within the imperial core

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 5 months ago

i wonder which endocrine systems are disrupted by not having your head sufficiently stuffed into a toilet before being old enough to type words into nazitter dot com

[–] ebu@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

if you put this paragraph

Corporations institute barebones [crappy product] that [works terribly] because they can't be bothered to pay the [production workers] to actually [produce quality products] but when shit goes south they turn around and blame the [workers] for a bad product instead of admitting they cut corners.

and follow it up with "It's China Syndrome"... then it's pretty astonishingly clear it is meant in reference to the perceived dominant production ideology of specifically China and has nothing to do with nuclear reactors

[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

A WELL TRAINED AI can be a very useful tool.

please do elaborate on exactly what kind of training turns the spam generator into a prescription-writer, or whatever other task that isn't generating spam

Edit: to add this is partly why AI gets a bad rap from folks on the outside looking it.

i'm pretty sure "normal" folks hate it because of all the crap it's unleashed upon the internet, and not just because they didn't use the most recent models off the "Hot" tab on HuggingFace

It's China Syndrome but instead of nuclear reactors it's AI.

what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

[–] ebu@awful.systems 4 points 5 months ago

very nice :3

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

the post is fake regardless, its just another rightwing shitpost account. doubt there's a kid at all

[–] ebu@awful.systems 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)
[–] ebu@awful.systems 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

f4mi's channel is fantastic btw, fun little deep dives on old hardware and games. highly recommend checking her stuff out

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 8 months ago

i went and bought it, and yup, the revisited version is the one i was thinking of. time to walk around inside a picture of Sam Altman so i can absorb his raw intellect and business acumen

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

goddammit! you have no idea how many variations of "first person walking simulator projected image texture trippy visuals" i slapped into every search engine!

but yes, that was the one i was thinking of

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