• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    13 hours ago

    Steve from GamersNexus must be laughing his ass off right now, especially because the stream of GPUs into China wasn’t a very well kept secret thanks to him and his team. If things happen on low levels like buying single GPUs off of private citizens to move them to China, it would be pretty dense to believe that the chinese government doesn’t have a much bigger scheme running.

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      8 hours ago

      Why does anyone care if China is buying GPUs? Its a product sold across the planet, why shouldn’t they be able to buy them. Plus we got some open models from there.

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        8 hours ago

        People care because this technology was hyped up as the thing that will replace all workers. It was announced as both our salvation and our doom. That’s why it has a geopolitical dimension.

        All of this is fucking bullshit of course lol. Big Tech was out of ideas - the Metaverse is the bodily (or virtual?) manifestation of the idea drought that Silicon Valley was going though, and suddendly they get their hands on something that - on a glance - looks like intelligence.

        This is the largest scam the world has ever seen, and we all will pay for it - because our leadership wouldn’t listen when critics said that the Emperor had no clothes on.

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            7 hours ago

            I’m also not American. But just like 2008, the banks are deep in the swamp together with our AI friends. Regardless of where you are on the globe, we all will feel this.

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      11 hours ago

      The interest of the Chinese government align more on keeping the sanctions and force Chinese AI companies to support the internal chip industry