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China has allowed quite a bit of market liberalism, so it isn’t that surprising if their AI stuff is responding to the market.

But, I don’t really see the connection on the flip side. Why should proprietary AI be associated with communism? If anything I guess a communist handling of AI would also be to share the model.



My reasoning for proprietary AI to be associated with communism is that they aren't competing in a free market way where everyone does one thing and do its best. They are simultaneously trying to do all things internally.

For example , Chatgpt etc. self hosts them on their own gpu and they can generate 10tk/s or something.

Now there exists groq , cerebras who can do token generation of 4000 tk/s but they kind of require a open source model.

So that is why I feel its not really abiding by the true capitalist philosophy


> My reasoning for proprietary AI to be associated with communism is that they aren't competing in a free market way where everyone does one thing and do its best.

That seems based on a very weird idea of what capitalism and communism are; idealized free markets have very little to do with the real-world economic system for which the name “capitalism” was coined, and dis-integration where “everyone does one thing” has little to do with either capitalism or free markets, though it might be a convenient assumption for 101-level discussions of market competition where you want to avoid dealing with real-world issues like partially-overlapping markets and imperfect substitutes to assume every good exists in an isolated market of goods which compete only and exactly with the other groups in that same market in a simple way.


It seems to me like they are acting like true capitalists; they seem very happy with the idea that capital (rather than labor) gives them the right to profit. But, they don’t seem to be too attached to free-market-ism.


I mean how is a free and open source model not a free market schism atleast in the ai world.




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