Unfortunately that's up to a judge to decide and they don't need to introduce illegally retained data in court for parallel construction. Nor are courts an issue when they decide to share/sell this data to everyone under the sun, because it will be nearly impossible to figure out who they gave/shared it with, and the damage is already done regardless.
Where’s the party? I just built something similar to your product for an SF-based non-profit (fully self-hosted on site) and it’s been extremely useful. Would love to get tips on how we can improve our setup.
> what are we (in the US) even building these super massive data centers for?
Partially to make investors think it's worth giving US companies a lot of money. Also, I think distillation is a significant part of why Chinese models perform as well as they do. I think that's completely fair play (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Meta stole a lot of their training data). But I would expect if US model developers stopped right now Chinese development would slow down.
US companies are clearing the path, others follow in their wake.
> But I would expect if US model developers stopped right now Chinese development would slow down.
I would be willing to take this bet, given the nationalities of basically all the ML teams I've seen in the Valley/tech over the past decade or two.
There are lots of Chinese people, and some of them are super smart, so it really should be expected that they would be able to produce good models, particularly in the incredibly competitive environment of mainland China.
Can you help me understand why you think the US labs are in the lead?
A lot of cloud platforms have terrible slow network storage. They also might need to compile the GPU kernels fresh as they might not have a persistent CUDA cache.
> With the talk of AI data centers' impact on the world, you'd think this would be 10x to 100x the amount of energy in order to get the effects they're using here.
Well there's also training to consider. But yeah, most of what I see online about datacenters is nonsense. People worried about water use as a top concern are misinformed.
Look, I absolutely get it if you're worried your boss is just waiting for the day to replace you with an LLM. Fucking get organized with your fellow laborers instead of getting distracted by datacenter water use. Call your politicians to rein in billionaires. If anything the ownership class is probably directing online discourse towards electricity and water user to keep people away from class-focused debates.
No, because it’s a viable strategy that has teeth because of existing regs and agencies, not the battle to fight until the end of the earth, but it’s a pretty big hammer
Sure, and I love to see people actually giving a shit and getting engaged locally. There are many things I see - tweets and video from protests - that make me think people should take that energy to more direct issues.
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