> loudly stating the foreign labs have been distilling their models for a while now.

They would be stating this even if it weren't true, because it fits their marketing.

While I don't disbelieve the claim outright, I highly suspect Anthropic is misleading everyone about the severity.

Distillation usage still burnishes usage numbers for IPO...

If anything, Anthropic is incentivized to track but do nothing until equity lock up expires.

It's going to be a lot worse if these companies IPO before the crash.

The US gov should dissolve Anthropic and OpenAI tomorrow. Failing that they should block them from going public.

As much as I'd like to see Sam and Dario fall from power, I don't think they should be the ones going to prison for this. Investors gave them money full well knowing there would be no return until they could steal from retail investors when the companies IPO.

> in a rational market.

Unfortunately the market is often not rational in this way.

Hype within retail market means there are suckers willing to buy. Institutional market knows there are suckers when the hype is high. Both would drive the price up, and retail investors the ones left when it falls.

> Until there's some sort of "community owned hardware"

Or until some bright people figure out drastically more efficient means of training.

Banning next gen open models would never happen globally, and would be a major disadvantage to any country that does.

If the USA continues to put barriers into the release of models, open and/or foreign models will start to out perform them.

If open models are competitive enough nothing will stop even US companies from running them locally.

My experience has been that unless you are using the basic graphics options of Bedrock it performs worse at the same render distance, and even with basic graphics the perf is not much better. With Java version getting Vulkan rendering I suspect it'll out perform bedrock even without mods.

Not to mention bedrocks "improved" graphics look like trash compared to the shaders available for modded Java.

My biggest problem with dumb phones and similar concepts like this digital detox phone is the comparitively crappy cameras. I don't take photos often, but when I do I want them to be good.

They say that it has a 48MP camera so that shouldn't be a problem. I think I saw them comparing it to the iphone's camera even. Remains to be seen of course.

The reason the iPhone takes great photos is probably 95% because of the software. It’s 0% because of the number of pixels, and never was even since their early models.

I think the kind of user who gets a detox phone will also get an Instax or a second hand old Ixus.

Is there a reason to think that this might not have equally good software for taking pictures? Almost, at least. There are a lot of phones in the market with good cameras (yes, + software).

We won't know until someone tries it.

The company having it's product market restricted will negatively impact their financial investment.

Also if you have an agreement with a company for them to provide you with a service, and investing in them is part of that deal, reneging on the service part still isn't okay.

> The company having it's product market restricted will negatively impact their financial investment.

Anthropic's services keep bumping into capacity limits even with Fable disabled.

Revenue is not a problem. This controversy has been good publicity for them: So powerful the government tried to block it!

> Also if you have an agreement with a company for them to provide you with a service, and investing in them is part of that deal, reneging on the service part still isn't okay.

Reneging on the deal implies Anthropic decided not to offer it. That wasn't the case. The government has temporarily restricted it.

It's much more likely SpaceX will continue building more ground data centers and using their sat relays to make global connection faster than ground connections can allow.