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The Chinese models are locally hostable. This does not, and cannot count entities self hosting the models privately.

The research posted by American AI companies (other than huggingface and a few startups) is pretty much a nothing burger.

This is what I keep trying to tell everyone. It’s not US vs China nor AI vs no AI, the real battle is corporate APIs vs augmented, locally hosted, open weights and open research models.

I hope the future is specialized models on smartphones, occasionally augmented by remote APIs. And that has a lot of gravity because, once set up, the calls are basically free.

And AMD/Nvidia are still relevant in that future because they’ll likely be the one training models, at least.

I don’t know a single IRL American who would say this.

Some would have nasty things to say about the Manifesto, sure, but it’s not something they’d bring up, and not because it’s old. And trust me… The Bible or Adam Smith is the constitution as far as some are concerned. There is either no issue with old documents, or cynicism/worry over the ones we have.

Again. Lemmy at large, and the loudest parts of the internet, do not represent how Americans see stuff. The political influencers in particular are just in an alternate reality.

Honestly I don’t use Qwen3 instruct unless it’s for code or “logic.” Even the 32B is soo dry and focused on that, and countering it with sampling dumbs it down.

Not sure if it’s too big, but I have been super impressed with Jamba 52B. It knows tons of fiction trivia and writing styles for such a “small” model, though I haven’t tried to manipulate its prompt for writing yet. And it’s an MoE model like A3B.

I think you underestimate how techy many people are.

You need to know the concept links. URLs. Web pages, navigation, tabs and your browser controls. It’s like getting in a boat with no concept of boating.

I’ve spent years trying to teach my mom and grandma, and honestly if they aren’t super interested/engaged, they just can’t do it. It’s like teaching someone how to boat that hates boating unless it’s required.

IDK, it was awhile ago and blocked in the page it auto opened. By Cromite maybe?

They might be right? AFAIK the Ford Ranger is supposed to be quite good, and I never see them. I’m kinda shocked when I spot one, like it’s an exotic car.

And it’s bigger/more expensive than the Hilux.

I keep noticing this. Russian outlets seem to think Americans are a decade or two back and thinking about them all the time.

My friends, the US is on fire, internally. Alleged Russian interference overflowed out of my memory about 800 outrageous headlines ago, and doesn’t even matter here anymore.

If Obama strutted out in front Trump tower, butt naked, and fessed up to this, batted eyes would only last like a day.

Also, aren’t most folks using apps these days? I have elders and younger relatives that literally don’t know how to use a web browser.

I wouldn’t want to be a web publisher right now…

I still whitelist sites with sensible, unobtrusive ads. Axios for instance, which are mostly 1st party. But that’s increasingly the exception.

I had to rip APNews out when Google Ads tried to serve me malware.

…Isn’t that in reverse?

IIRC Gears of War women were heavily (read:sensibly) armored and pretty diverse.

I dunno what this Mortal Kombat context is, but those are some deep V cuts for fighting in.

In other words, I figured GoW would be more “woke” than more exposed Mortal Kombat fighters. Increasingly “defeminizing” women is like a core grievance of gamergate, right?

The Toyota Hilux is a guerrilla classic. Mega US trucks have nothing on it.

I dunno how they figure that, yeah, as I thought Nvidia/AMD were supply limited by TSMC. Does it mean they’d raise prices? Get fewer barriers from China for other products, or maybe ramp up assembly there? Allocate more fab orders to the server GPUs?

It's Bolin/Mako's Lower Ring family! And, clockwise, Jang Hui fishing folks and Republic City homeless.

Folks like this (along with some notably badass women) are the bread and butter of the shows, though. I don't ever remember hitching to think 'huh that farmer lady looks like a skimpy model'

This is a trope in all middle ages media I've seen. I've been watching someone play KCD2, and it's not as bad... but still there and jarring.

The only place where I can think of where it seems more fair is, ironically, some animation? Barring anime's sexism... problems, there's less incentive for that, heh. I liked Avatar's peasants:

KCD2's not as bad, but has some of this too.

I am deleting my precaffenated post in shame.

RIP. Nothing to see here!

The irony is the chip ban is exactly what advanced Chinese AI. They were reliant on Nvidia like everyone, choked off, then:

• Forced to get thrifty, collaborate and acutally innovate, while the US spins its wheels doing private (read: unshared and hoarded) research, skipping that to scale up instead or turning to focus on 'products' (to quote Zuckerberg): https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-meta-llama-ai-mark-zuckerberg/
• It forced them to grow their own training hardware, which they now have: Huawei NPUs. Along with pretty good models specifically designed for them, and power efficient on them, and open weights: https://huggingface.co/IntervitensInc/pangu-pro-moe-model
• Being a 'step' behind saved money. And now they're racing ahead as US firms plateau and flounder as the AI Bro hype crashes into reality.

So this is just Republicans (and Democrats) being paid off by Tech Bros.

Trump ultimately did the right thing here (and was probably talked into it by the Nvidia CEO, TBH). But its too late anyway.

There are other factors too (like Chinese companies seemingly sharing unspecified training data, maybe from the Chinese government, which I don't see evidence other countries are doing), but still.

+1 for nitter screenshots.

I don’t like contributing to Twitter in any way, but Nitter + screenshot undermines it enough to warm my heart. And informs others they can do the same!

Nuance. On Lemmy?

(But yes I agree).