American companies are spending enormous sums to develop high-performing AI models. Distillation attacks are attempting to maliciously extract them — and nobody is doing much to stop it.

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

China is 38%, and growing, of the world's investment in LLMs

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Most of that goes toward implementation (data centers) and chip manufacturing. China is making money on compute services and maintaining capability parity on software the good old fashioned pirate way merely to prevent a technology gap with the US, as is their way.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@piefed.zip 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That is not "allowing us to be the sole host of the thing that is destroying our economy and trust in all media from inside out". That is keeping parity with it. China is also having major issues with fabricated media from AI. The Chinese government has also latched on to AI, as many others, to manipulate media, and many other police state things. Their economy is heavily, heavily, invested in the success of llms. When this bubble bursts, it will be bad for every major economy on earth, as they are all disproportionately invested in this.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

"Host" was certainly poor wording as one of it's other definitions is literally data center services, I meant to refer only to the siting of software research which the headline calls the "AI brain".

And yeah I agree on ultimate trajectory, AI offerings are 95% folly and it's now so big that even countries who haven't integrated their economies with the sector will feel the pain when it collapses, China will not be immune. Though they will probably just stumble while the US will completely face plant.