It was individual PEOPLE doing this under the aegis of a corporation. The individuals are to blame more than the company/corp; although, the company/corp involved should see sanctions as well.

The real issue is that humans will use AI in such a way that it kills all humans. AI itself is just a computer program and as such, can not directly affect the Real World without human help... such as giving it the authority to launch nuclear missiles whenever.

Plenty; although, you will never hear from them or meet them. They are busy working a 9-5 trying to survive (if they are lucky).

"You're folding it wrong," obviously.

Perhaps Tim Apple had the sense to get out ahead of this.

Happy to be proven wrong! That would be amazing engineering and might actually allow the rollable Global to come to fruition.

But since everybody who has claimed to have perfected the engineering hasn't actually done so one should be cautious on such investments.

They paid those companies for access to the models. They're not stealing the service: they signed up for them and used them. The same way Anthropic and OpenAI do for the other companies.

THere's plenty of evidence that these same companies (OpenAI and Anthropic specifically) also used resources illegally in their training. Not just "it was on the internet and not explicitly licensed for training" but "this is protected IP". I personally don't think that matters, but it matters to their argument, so it's worth bringing up.

You can't do one thing and then complain when someone does a lesser version of that same thing.

You gotta remember the slashdot mindset. It's got a very complex herdmind.

Something I disagree with: troll.
Something that bites the hand that feeds me: overrated
Something that attacks the thing I dislike: insightful

Musk is a fascist, and the others are all cleptocratic capitalists, so they're hated. China is the good communist (but really capitalist because they give us cheap slop) country.

It's all very trite and tiresome and single dimensional.

They're not even using the right terms.

They're not distilling US models, they're generating synthetic data to train models to distill their own models.

You know, the exact same thing I do to train local purpose-built open models.

So am I going to have the full weight of the US government at my door, next?

" conducting systematic extraction of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. AI companies"

How is this in any way meaningfully different than using them to generate code, or perform any other arbitrary set of tasks? It isn't.

This is ridiculous.

Bro, the word "woke" has been misused so badly that I feel an aversion to you using that word in relation to Star Trek.

To me, Star Trek removed all of the bullshit human reactions and worked directly with raw reality. An example: Two people kissed and it was a HUGE deal to a lot of people back then. Why? I was not sure as a child why. It was a boy and a girl kissing. Who cares? Wait what? The skin color of the woman mattered? Why? Why didn't the skin color of the man matter?

To me, it was just two people kissing. It was a complete non-issue for me. What really makes me cry is that I had thought we were done teaching bullshit to our kids... and yet here we are, 60 years later, with very large groups of people, still teaching hate and such to their kids. What the fuck happened?

No action will be taken against it anyways. WTF dude? You act like we have a government that has ANY concerns at all for its citizens. The only things that matter are money and power... and guess what? You don't have enough of either to matter to anyone who does.

Think about it for a second: The NSA knew this was happening. How could they not, since they monitor ALL data flows. They did nothing. There are numerous Attorneys General throughout the USA that could bring a lawsuit about this, but none have and none will.

Face it bro, all of your devices (car, phone, tv, wifi) are used to monitor you and it happens because those in authority want to monitor you. It will not stop. The war is over. The only war that mattered was in 1776 and Alexander Hamilton ensured we lost it in favor of centralized Executive Power.

Do what exactly? Voting, writing, speaking, all seem to have ZERO effect. I have nothing which motivates politicians nor other citizens. The only items that appear to change anything are money and already existing power. Since I was not born into power, I have none. Since I have no power, I have no significant amounts of money.

Pray tell, what can a citizen do to actually have any hope of stopping this wave of fascism? People at all levels of government appear to be fully captured. My current .sig seems to be exceedingly appropriate here.

It's a good thing we don't live in a Free Society then isn't it? Otherwise, all of this shit would be illegal and the government wouldn't be doing it. "Constitution", "Free", "Rights", are all sooo last century. It's a good thing that the People are irrelevant; otherwise, they would be mighty pissed about what is going on.

Copyright: Asimov, Nine Billion Names of God.

Surely I can't be the only one who thought that.

The summer I turned 6 (1967) and moved down the road from the 4 Tobler girls.

Never had any inclination to change. Boys are icky.

It's not just phones. I recently switched back to FF from Vivaldi on my desktop with the death of Manifest V2, and in one day of use, It'll hit 3 GB of ram of more with 1 active tab. It's gotten very annoying

You barely touched on the most critical point here: People are being arrested and prosecuted based on the testimony of a private company. Think about it.