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duskseeker

Junior Member
Registered Member
I am still seething.

It is retarded and I stand by my statement.

"Open" AI went closed sourced. Before Deepseek appeared, people were locked into OpenAI just like they were locked in Microsoft and others that are also closed source. These users could have (and probably would have) switched to Deepseek without open sourcing or even providing a localizing ability because the costs would be so much lower.

It's totally stupid to give up a major tech advantage. Look at all these closed source giants.

"OPEN" Ai
Bytedance
Microsoft
Apple
Adobe
DJI
BYD
CATL

Are they stupid? Of course not. They have an intellectual property moat.

The point is that Deepseek's cost advantage would have gotten adoption anyways. So, open sourcing was probably a dumb move.

The second point was the robotics open sourcing. That was ultra stupid. Let's take just ONE case. Look at India, who is currently is a wannabe imperialist. Luckily, they are useless and weak.

But thanks to China's Agibot sharing its secrets via opensource, Superpowa 2012 India has a vast army of robots to take care of agriculture, work in factories, build infrastructure, build homes, bottle cow urine elixirs, make weapons 24/7, invade and subjugate their neighbors, and position missiles aimed at Beijing. They don't even need "so many white slaves" anymore!

Whoops

Do you see how fucking stupid this is?

Do you think the Indians will be grateful towards China Of course not, chinki. That's their term, not mine.

Moreover, no other group has achieved as much in humanoid robotics as Chinese companies. That tells me that moat is probably very large, which means it was hard to overcome anyways. That means that China would be the default victor of the robot industry. What did China gain by open sourcing? Nothing. That's why it's so fucking insanely stupid.
 

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AssassinsMace

Lieutenant General
What has happened to FT? So much praise for China suddenly.

There’s a point where the Western news media will ruin their own credibility if they keep reporting misinformation. Many Americans believe Chinese live in straw huts and have dirt roads. Now you have TikTok refugees making the news, there’s recognition that the US is lying to their own people about China.
 

proelite

Junior Member
I am still seething.

It is retarded and I stand by my statement.

"Open" AI went closed sourced. Before Deepseek appeared, people were locked into OpenAI just like they were locked in Microsoft and others that are also closed source. These users could have (and probably would have) switched to Deepseek without open sourcing or even providing a localizing ability because the costs would be so much lower.

It's totally stupid to give up a major tech advantage. Look at all these closed source giants.

"OPEN" Ai
Bytedance
Microsoft
Apple
Adobe
DJI
BYD
CATL

Are they stupid? Of course not. They have an intellectual property moat.

The point is that Deepseek's cost advantage would have gotten adoption anyways. So, open sourcing was probably a dumb move.

The second point was the robotics open sourcing. That was ultra stupid. Let's take just ONE case. Look at India, who is currently is a wannabe imperialist. Luckily, they are useless and weak.

But thanks to China's Agibot sharing its secrets via opensource, Superpowa 2012 India has a vast army of robots to take care of agriculture, work in factories, build infrastructure, build homes, bottle cow urine elixirs, make weapons 24/7, invade and subjugate their neighbors, and position missiles aimed at Beijing. They don't even need "so many white slaves" anymore!

Whoops

Do you see how fucking stupid this is?

Do you think the Indians will be grateful towards China Of course not, chinki. That's their term, not mine.

Moreover, no other group has achieved as much in humanoid robotics as Chinese companies. That tells me that moat is probably very large, which means it was hard to overcome anyways. That means that China would be the default victor of the robot industry. What did China gain by open sourcing? Nothing. That's why it's so fucking insanely stupid.
If DeepSeek were a closed source, it would be banned, and American AI would rule the rest of the world.
Currently, they can ban DeepSeek but the USA lost their AI moat.

In the case of Agibot open-sourcing the secrets, how is India going to make functional robots at an economical scale when they don't have the supply chain and the talent.

Software is easy for China, but somewhat harder for the rest of the world. Manufacturing is easy for China, but much harder for the rest of the world. China sharing open software does nothing to hurt China's core competency but hurts American core competency.
 

Temstar

Brigadier
Registered Member
I am still seething.

It is retarded and I stand by my statement.

"Open" AI went closed sourced. Before Deepseek appeared, people were locked into OpenAI just like they were locked in Microsoft and others that are also closed source. These users could have (and probably would have) switched to Deepseek without open sourcing or even providing a localizing ability because the costs would be so much lower.

It's totally stupid to give up a major tech advantage. Look at all these closed source giants.

"OPEN" Ai
Bytedance
Microsoft
Apple
Adobe
DJI
BYD
CATL

Are they stupid? Of course not. They have an intellectual property moat.

The point is that Deepseek's cost advantage would have gotten adoption anyways. So, open sourcing was probably a dumb move.

The second point was the robotics open sourcing. That was ultra stupid. Let's take just ONE case. Look at India, who is currently is a wannabe imperialist. Luckily, they are useless and weak.

But thanks to China's Agibot sharing its secrets via opensource, Superpowa 2012 India has a vast army of robots to take care of agriculture, work in factories, build infrastructure, build homes, bottle cow urine elixirs, make weapons 24/7, invade and subjugate their neighbors, and position missiles aimed at Beijing. They don't even need "so many white slaves" anymore!

Whoops

Do you see how fucking stupid this is?

Do you think the Indians will be grateful towards China Of course not, chinki. That's their term, not mine.

Moreover, no other group has achieved as much in humanoid robotics as Chinese companies. That tells me that moat is probably very large, which means it was hard to overcome anyways. That means that China would be the default victor of the robot industry. What did China gain by open sourcing? Nothing. That's why it's so fucking insanely stupid.
That's the attitude you should take if you think there are no more breakthrough coming in the future from Chinese AI companies. But given the track record so far why should anyone believe that? Seems more likely there will be many more revolutionary breakthroughs yet to come. Have some confidence in the home team. Instead of holding onto advantages like Americans and bet on no one else ever catching up instead consider the positive influence this would have on China the brand in general as demonstrated by:

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Considering advances from Companies like Unitree, AgiBot etc I'm thinking China also has the most to benefiting turning any advances in AI into actual productive force, instead of just chatbots

Lastly I have to quote that scene from Let the Bullets Fly again because that scene is exactly what's happening here:
张麻子 is a fictionalized version of Mao himself, and what he said represents core value of PRC, that's why there's that message written on the right half of Tiananmen. If China started acting like US what's the point of a socialist revolution?
 

name

Junior Member
Registered Member
one tweet. whoopee..
If DeepSeek were a closed source, it would be banned, and American AI would rule the rest of the world.
Currently, they can ban DeepSeek but the USA lost their AI moat.

Software is easy for China, but somewhat harder for the rest of the world. Manufacturing is easy for China, but much harder for the rest of the world. China sharing open software does nothing to hurt China's core competency but hurts American core competency.
They can't enforce that ban. They can can it from the app store. Who cares. With the amount of money saved from switching, businesses that want to switch will find a way. So again, Deepseek could have held onto their moat AND defeat usa's planned techno-feudalism AND make money, etc.

I can't see the case for open sourcing. Deepseek would have won across the board without open sourcing. Now, they are in a weaker position - still strong - but I suspect weaker than if they were closed source.
 

GZDRefugee

Junior Member
Registered Member
Well this is bad news.

As I said before, I work in the wearable electronics industry. If you know anything about this stuff, you understand the implications of privacy violations and surveillance this technology opens up. We can already map biometric data from heart activity sensors, electrodermal activity sensors, accelerometers, and piezoelectric sensors to identities. All this under the guise of healthcare monitoring.

Earlier today, we were pitched an idea: proximity based communication tying biometric data to location and time. Explicitly, relaying identifying information to nearby smartphones running lightweight AI models to collect and organize this data before sending it off to a database.

It's a shame that distilled AI models are already being used to oppress.
 

proelite

Junior Member
one tweet. whoopee..

They can't enforce that ban. They can can it from the app store. Who cares. With the amount of money saved from switching, businesses that want to switch will find a way. So again, Deepseek could have held onto their moat AND defeat usa's planned techno-feudalism AND make money, etc.

I can't see the case for open sourcing. Deepseek would have won across the board without open sourcing. Now, they are in a weaker position - still strong - but I suspect weaker than if they were closed source.

How do businesses and folks in the West use DeepSeek if DeepSeek's API and app is banned? Business will follow the law and regular folks won't be bothered to use VPN.
 
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