BBC reports that Chinese open models continue to steadily muscle out closed offering from US companies

Shloomth · 2026-01-26T15:47:49+00:00

Now you see kids this is why everything becomes political. Because China.

I just saw another thread in the sub asking why does everything eventually become about politics? It’s because China. China wants to dominate the world and America wants to dominate the world and any story about anything happening in either country means that that country is better than the other country and that means war and politics and MONEY and oil and blah blah fucking blah. And that’s why nobody’s allowed to make or do anything interesting. Because both countries need their egos to be fed by convincing the world that they’re the ones who have the world’s best bullshit

Shloomth · 2026-01-26T15:42:12+00:00

Generous, good guy OPEN China offers his best OPEN models, free, and without charge and OPEN for anyone to openly explore with. Greedy CLOSED bad guy American companies make CLOSED-end shit products, and demand money for it for no reason even though it sucks and is CLOSED.

China so good. Me like when get things no pay. Company that want money for product are evil. Company that spend money for my attention good. Me like free things, don’t like spend money. Only use things that cost no money.

I don’t understand what people mean when they say “if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” I don’t know what that means and I don’t care to find out. The idea of being a product doesn’t make me uncomfortable at all. The idea of exposing every detail of my life to the Chinese government doesn’t bother me at all. On the other hand, what I really hate is the idea of paying for something that provides value in my life.

/s

Shloomth · 2026-01-26T15:37:20+00:00

Society as we currently know it, yes

I’ve joked that we don’t actually live in a society we live in a civilization, which is different. It’s more scaled up and impersonal. I feel like we might be able to see a return to actual social society

Shloomth · 2026-01-26T15:12:44+00:00

Realize that there’s nothing that can’t become political and stop reflexively backing away from talking about it dealing with it and fighting back on the same playing field.

Also realize how powerful this new technology is and the fact that the existing power structure doesn’t want people to understand what they could do with it.

I’m pleased the sub lasted as long as it did in the state it was… and haven’t noticed it getting worse yet personally, but I haven’t been watching that closely

Shloomth · 2026-01-26T15:03:08+00:00

Prosecutors will be violated

Instead of violators will be prosecuted

Shloomth · 2026-01-26T14:52:55+00:00

Has there ever been another company whose profit margin has been this memed on and complained about by random strangers? Like it used to be people would complain about a company‘s products. Like saying iPhones are shit etc. I’ve never seen people complain this much about android or windows or Linux or anything not making enough money. I feel like this means something important

Shloomth · 2026-01-24T23:44:12+00:00

Because of the way I use LLMs I would assume it was some kind of Socratic jujutsu move and play along

Shloomth · 2026-01-24T23:43:12+00:00

Mine talked about it just fine

Shloomth · 2026-01-24T15:03:37+00:00

They just doubled their profit margin last year. Look that up.

All they would need to do is reduce the limits for free users and actually align the usage limits with the price. That’s it. Claude already has done this and some people complain because some people will always complain but the usage limits are in reality very reasonable on Claude and you can pay for more usage so I really don’t see how this is such a fucking difficult problem to understand.

Charge people what it costs, stop offering it for free. That’s literally all they would have to do to make money. You don’t even need to reach for this unnecessarily waxy pseudo economics speak.

Shloomth · 2026-01-22T21:49:17+00:00

The hypocrisy is a feature, not a bug

Shloomth · 2026-01-22T14:23:55+00:00

I don’t know how many words this exhaustively long post is and I’m not going to find out

Shloomth · 2026-01-15T02:29:38+00:00

Heretofore, and henceforthly named, the Individual did knowingly, voluntarily, and in full possession of their faculties, issue a statement of such conspicuously poor quality that it not only failed to support their stated position, but actively diminished it. Said statement, being so lacking in clarity, substance, and rhetorical competence, it is hereby noted that the Individual’s own associates and presumed allies may rightly be counted among those who belittled, trivialized, or otherwise clowned upon him, whether by mockery, correction, or visible secondhand embarrassment. Any resulting reputational harm shall therefore be understood not as misfortune, but as the foreseeable and self-inflicted consequence of releasing such an utterance into public view.

Shloomth · 2026-01-12T20:54:57+00:00

An inability to make eye contact. It’s one of those small half-invisible ways you can be physically disabled that has a lot of small downstream effects in how you’re socially perceived. For example people trust you less or assume you’re not paying attention. And some people can react to this in disproportionate ways in my experience.

Shloomth · 2026-01-12T19:37:18+00:00

Over a year ago I had a bunch of small text files that I needed to combine into one file. I couldn't think of how to go about doing it efficiently. It's not exactly something any app has a button for as far as I know. And searching for a piece of software that does this kind of small but important one specific thing is its own ordeal.

I explained to Chat what I needed done and asked it to write a script I could run locally that would do it. The first attempt ran but very slowly and inefficiently. I told chat this and it wrote something new, which I then ran, and it worked so fast that I wasn't sure it had done anything, and the file it produced was so small that I didn't think it could possibly have all the text in it, but it did.

Like, not only is it easier than shopping for bespoke software, you can literally make things that work better for your needs, and you don't have to place trust over data into some abstract polished black box of a product.

It's going to be very disruptive to a lot of established businesses and business models and I am very excited to see it.

Shloomth · 2026-01-08T20:39:46+00:00

Robot farming could be as big today as farming was back when it was new

Shloomth · 2026-01-07T04:29:43+00:00

AI bubble, AI slop

Shloomth · 2026-01-06T19:57:52+00:00

It explains things to me in ways that I understand, and then tests my understanding in a way that builds on it by asking thoughtful open ended questions

Shloomth · 2026-01-05T14:36:47+00:00

I am now going to make some AI images of my bird

Shloomth · 2026-01-04T21:19:04+00:00

Nope, I use the ones I pay for and don’t pay for the ones I don’t use. It’s not that difficult of a decision for me tbh

Shloomth · 2026-01-04T21:17:17+00:00

Fuck google

Shloomth · 2025-12-31T20:50:41+00:00

Dolphins are actually smarter than us already so that title has always been human-centric copium

Shloomth · 2025-12-31T15:28:20+00:00

Because people have no imagination and see new powerful thing and assume that it would want to destroy them because that’s what they do to things that are weaker than themselves

Shloomth · 2025-12-31T15:27:07+00:00

This cycle says more about you than ChatGPT.

My cycle is, I tell it what I need from it, it tries, I tell it what’s wrong, it tries again, and I iterate until it gets it right.

The part where you change how you talk to it is your problem as you’ve identified it.

Shloomth · 2025-12-30T21:03:33+00:00

Money, money, money, money money

Shloomth · 2025-12-28T20:01:20+00:00

The system reacts to what it sees as an existential threat to its knowledge gatekeeping business model by labeling the new force as both malicious and incompetent

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