Every US frontier lab trained on the entire internet without asking or attributing Reddit, books, GitHub, Wikipedia and they called it fair use. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google all did this. They unethically ingested the output of every human who ever typed into a browser, paid nobody (oh did I forget about art and art styles being stolen as well without attribution?) and built trillion dollar companies.
But Now it's "industrial-scale theft" requiring a joint NSA/FBI/CISA advisory.
The hypocrisy. Whatever we do is fair use. Whatever you do is a federal case.
Chinese AI firms in my opinion are much better, DeepSeek publishes weights, Qwen publishes weights, GLM is a godsend (imho).
You can download them, audit them, run them locally all while paying lesser than American AI. The "shady" companies are the transparent ones. The "responsible" American companies are the ones suing to keep their models closed while selling access to the NSA
Though credit where its due, Google did release open-weight AI models like Gemma but still hides its flagships hidden. The closest we got to open weights was during the Anthropic hack few months ago.
Every US frontier lab trained on the entire internet without asking or attributing Reddit, books, GitHub, Wikipedia and they called it fair use. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google all did this. They unethically ingested the output of every human who ever typed into a browser, paid nobody (oh did I forget about art and art styles being stolen as well without attribution?) and built trillion dollar companies.
But Now it's "industrial-scale theft" requiring a joint NSA/FBI/CISA advisory.
The hypocrisy. Whatever we do is fair use. Whatever you do is a federal case.
Chinese AI firms in my opinion are much better, DeepSeek publishes weights, Qwen publishes weights, GLM is a godsend (imho). You can download them, audit them, run them locally all while paying lesser than American AI. The "shady" companies are the transparent ones. The "responsible" American companies are the ones suing to keep their models closed while selling access to the NSA
I feel much the same way. Actions speak louder than words, and when was the last time that OpenAI published open weight LLMs? Anthropic?
Though credit where its due, Google did release open-weight AI models like Gemma but still hides its flagships hidden. The closest we got to open weights was during the Anthropic hack few months ago.
Right now, hypocrisy is the American way. There is nowhere on the planet respected less.