Seems like China knows what AI needs to do to get economic growth, while the US develops stronger population controlling AI like Palantir and LLMs, which also can be tuned for controlling.

This article is just idiotic. You are right - the US is working very fast towards controlling the population.

ICE and Palantir???

The core issue stems from the US CLOUD Act of 2018, which allows American authorities to access data held by US companies regardless of location

Tell me how the US is not what they blame China to be.

Obligatory Welcome to Linux comment

Money throws logic out the window 10/10 times cant recommend.

They do it because there are so few alternatives out there, that the difference between them are greater than the average customer would want.

Break them up. If you are too big to fail, you are too big to exist.

If only there was a way to fund open source projects so we both could have better software for the world and paid employees…

I think you can guess which government body already do this. Just take a shot.

Sorry, maybe I’m an idiot, but I cant find a single song I have on my playlists from YT or Spotify.

Not even Queen or ABBA comes up. Am I using it wrong? Only did the install.

They do, but Android is open source, and now Google is trying to close it down.

Ofc they are. They are winning most things right now.

Chinas “weakness” is being reliant on being a production hub for the rest of the world.

And Trump tries to MOVE production to the US, so China can take over the dominant role.

I cant even.

Imagine how fast the US turned to shit, that China is now more trustworthy. Or at least, much more stable.

The Austrian military didn’t just adopt LibreOffice; they actually contributed back to it. Over five person-years of development work went into adding features they needed. Those improvements are now available to everyone using LibreOffice, which is pretty cool.

The open source dream!

I think there’s a middle ground. It’s not all or nothing.

We can have million dollar studios without having a billion dollar studio.

That’s true, which also illustrates how absurd the big paychecks are with your post in mind.

Sure.

The premise is to bring down costs, and not be free. This is a reality where we can share media we buy, because we own them again.

So you can kind of imagine the world 20-30 years back with VHS and DVDs. Just in the digital world.

Fewer people would buy the content, and less shareholders will be rich. Actors will also not go for multi million dollar salaries. But actors would still exist.

You can argue that this will bring down the number of movies, but most likely there will just be alot of small studios making movies instead of Netflix and Disney controlling the market from start to end.

There will be a much larger varaity in movies, and not that many reboots of past succes from the VHS/DVD age.

Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a reality outside our own.

They need us (our money). We dont even like them enough to not replace them the second they go away.

“Sorry, setting your oven to 200C requires Pro Mode Subscription. If you also want fast start, upgrade to our Premium Tier. Anyway, here’s a 2 minute ad before we heat your food.”

How is it a worse product if they move?

Yeah, I think I swayed too much into a general critic of a way of thinking about politics.

I still agree with you, when it’s a minister.

It’s also worth to note that his party, even though their name, is a middle party now and no longer left.

There are plenty of parties better for the people than them right now.