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Yeah true. I think for most it’s just this disgusting feeling of being tracked and spied on, not a real worry or threat.

on I am asked for Gmail in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
Just make a Gmail account and set it up to forward to your real one.

I think this is a bad idea because now google knows your identity and knows the identity of your real email. So the NSA knows too. Forever. You basically “infect” or out your anonymous email that way.

I think having an “official” smartphone with your personal information for shit like this and never letting it interact with your anonymous ids either way is the only proper way. Not even email either account. You’d need some easy way to swap files that can’t be monitored from the outside. And a VPN so the IPs never overlap. And then they probably still can associate both ids.

on I am asked for Gmail in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
As long as you don’t embrace communism they will win.

on I refused to train the AI that could replace me in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
That happened MANY years ago, and US elites came up with a plan to stop China by going through a shitload of wars and psy-op regime-changes - so called ‘Color-revolutions’ created by the CIA etc.

I’m just curious - you mean something like “The Grand Chessboard - American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives” (1997)? I haven’t read that yet.

But afaik they just fucking slept on China and that few of the regime change done in the last few 3 decades were aimed at it. Like they helped it get into the WTO and somehow they thought it would just become another neoliberal country that can be bought and controlled.

I clearly see how the “unipolar moment” led to regime change aimed at the middle east and eastward EU and nato expansion of their vassal states, but I don’t see how that affects China.

In any case yeah, China ran away and it’s pretty much over for US global supremacy, especially as they double down on not investing into their people: “In total, China now leads in 66 of the 74 technologies tracked, with the United States leading in the remaining eight” …org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-2025-up…

on US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material: »it is critical for the United States to ‘retain global leadership in artificial intelligence.« in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
This is chilling, not just because of the loss of control incidents but because of fuckais actively lobbying to disregard and to not regulate any of this. It’s INSANE. It really shows how similar the psychological mechanism of climate change denial and fuckai are. Because facts do not “fit” within their pseudo-religious worldview they are attacked and suppressed.

The enemy is both too weak and too strong.

longtermresilience.org/…/CLTR-Insight-report_-AI-…

Today’s loss of control incidents are a warning of more serious incidents to come. For example, in February 2026, an autonomous AI coding agent, after having its code change rejected, researched the human code maintainer and attempted to publicly discredit him to pressure him into accepting the code contribution. This type of behaviour was later observed in the incident AISI disclosed in August 2026, in which an AI model created fake online identities and used them to pressure the project’s maintainer to approve code changes.

The Loss of Control Observatory has now detected 1,664 real-world loss of control incidents in 2026. While most did not lead to significant harm, many incidents showed agents circumventing controls and escalating privileges, including by forging their own approval, such as:

on Sharp rise in incidents of AI escaping users’ control, analysis shows in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Then you’re a fool. Only a good browser with AI can defeat a bad internet full of AI.

on uBlock Origin works best on Firefox in c/firefox@lemmy.ml · 2 Sep 2026
If you believe NATO is simply a puppet of the US, why didn’t Turkey, France or Germany participate in the war in Iraq? Why didn’t they obey their “emperor’s” orders?

Yeah because we used to have better leaders. See here what sane leaders had to say about Ukraine joining Nato in 2008. And how it’s now presented.

globalsecurity.org/…/ukraine-241126-rferl06.htm

Concerning the 2008 Bucharest NATO summit, Merkel noted a pledge that Ukraine and Georgia would eventually join the western military alliance was a “battle cry” to the Russian leader, adding that he later told her: “You won’t be Chancellor forever. And then they’ll become a member of NATO. And I want to prevent that.”

Six years later Putin launched the Russian occupation and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, and followed that with the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which the Russian president has justified in part by citing Kyiv’s NATO membership desires.

Do you think Merkel and Sarkoszi are tragic fools? Or puppets and victims of Russian propaganda for saying such things? This USED to be understood and called REALISM. To see the world as it is. Germany used to NOT want to be dragged into expensive wars, USED to be not want to be militarist. And now? Now everyone in Germany will loudly scream YES YES YES to the question for total war once again. Rejoice for the days of death and murder and the downfall of peace and prosperity in Europe are over. Remember when you taste the ashes in your mouth that this is what you wanted. Fools.

Ukraine: How Merkel Prevented Ukraine’s NATO Membership (A DER SPIEGEL Reconstruction) - DER SPIEGEL

That was the year that Ukraine was likely closer to becoming a member of the Western alliance than ever, before or since. United States President George W. Bush stood solidly behind Kyiv’s accession. But the effort failed, as Zelenskyy made clear, due to the opposition of Merkel and Sarkozy – and an “absurd fear” of Russia. Because of this “miscalculation,” the Ukrainian president continued, his country is facing “the most terrible war in Europe since World War II.”

on Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
Respectfully disagree. Before Ukraine 2014, NATO was the answer to a question that wasn’t really relevant anymore.

I mean, yeah. That was the purpose. Bush Jr. decided in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia are going to join Nato, and Russia said they will do everything they can to prevent that. 2014, one coup later, we’re at war. And very clearly Germany is at war with Russia, sending war material to Ukraine.

Has it made Europe and Nato stronger? It make Nato relevant again. It made EU and Nato the same. Now Nato 3.0 is already ratified to take 5% GDP. You think this will make Europe stronger? Lack of energy imports, now with Iran too, no fertilizer with 40% less food production predicted for 2027, AI bubble popping soon… where do you see strength?

I see Europe as finished with a completely inevitable slide to fascism by now and breaking apart. It’s going to be Le Pen, AFD and UKIP ruling next. Most realist thinkers and analysts and professors from the cold war era is saying the Ukraine war was the worst blunder in the history of Nato. It was supposed to prevent war, not provoke it.

And media and discourse has completely degenerated. Any voice to the contrary is immediately maligned as a Russian propagandists or bot. You get fired for having this opinion today. This is stronger? I thought liberalism made Europe strong but that is gone now. Meanwhile our Nato emperor is stealing Venezuela’s oil, good thing Machado won that nobel peace price lol. But somehow Nato is benevolent and has to be spread to all corners of the earth. You people are completely insane to me.

Ukraine has been turned into a quasi-landlocked country and 90% of it’s warehouses have been bombed in retaliation to the wildberry escalations. General Kellog says conscription of women is a feminist issue lol. Lets just hope the winter will be incredibly mild.

So you’re right, Nato was the answer to a question that wasn’t relevant any more, and we engineered the situation to bring us back into a new cold war. Thanks Obama.

on Germany says Russia behind Leipzig airport drone attack in c/europe@feddit.org · 2 Sep 2026
AI psychosis swings both ways. There is definitely the c-suit managers who got marketed to and now fully embrace the insanity. Everything AI.

Then there are the people who think their feelings are valid logical reasons to start religious wars over. Apparently the existence AI insulted their ego and their “creativiae!” (in Cartman’s voice) by being better at writing and drawing than they are.

I would have more sympathy with the latter because they must be in incredible intellectual pain from disillusionment that all their poems and illustrations were in fact not art after all. But then the puritan loudmouths keep yapping on about what others can and cannot do. At this point I’m tempted to side with the Nerd Reich.

Aehm. I might be slightly affected as well.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Petition to rename Washington into Turdington.

on Google Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
The result is going to be some kind of deal where AI use requires to pay a certain percentage or something like $0.01 per token in copyright fees. This will be the end of open weight models you’re allowed to run locally on your PC. It’ll be “piracy”.

It will strengthen the AI corporations by allowing complete monopolization of AI.

on Sony, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging "blatant theft" of intellectual property in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Notably absent afaik: More moderators to moderate content

on Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Presumably they didn’t have that much money, because game developers do it for the love of the game. To create something new. So you’re basically saying they should better have abandoned their project.

It would have died quietly, and nobody would have given a fuck.

on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Can it change the layout / reflow the text of scientific papers to be single column text? I’m still searching something that makes reading papers on tablets possible.

on [CBH] PdfDing has migrated to Codeberg in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I don’t get it how do artists get captured by the Shortcut Machine like this?

True, maybe we need to police artists more to ensure moral purity and alignment with political correct ideology. Make them delete their “work” line by line, file by file /s

PS: Reminds me of this: lemmy.world/post/51139260 . The age of pluralism is definitely coming to a middle.

on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Money. Capitalists have it. Developers need it.

How do you not understand this. You and 14 other people.

“Oh just spend a million more on this and delay the release!”

on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Probably want Russia to back their “d-day sanctions” against Iran. Fucking morons. “Oh just hand over Iran to us!”

on Mystery US Military Plane Lands in Moscow With No Explanation From Washington or Kremlin in c/europe@feddit.org · 25 Aug 2026
Yeah I totally agree with you. From what I’ve seen only China has enacted sensible and quick regulations. Found this website regulations.ai.

I believe / hope that AI pushes the abilities humans need upwards. Like there is AI that can do character animation, but you still need a motion choreographer who interprets the script and tweaks the AI and has the words and thinking and creativity for character animation. Same for programming, you still need to design the shape of the program and unit tests and understand the architecture.

But with every progress a larger percentage of people will be replaced and their labor not valuable any more. It’s either socialism and planned economy either with or without free market or bust.

One hope I have is that we’ll also be able to use AI and advanced robotics for “subsistence living”. There are apparently humanoid robots for $6000 in China now. And once smartphones and AI are good enough you could use one as a “control module”. We might also build robots much easier out of wood and servos in the future, because other machine learning models allow control of very “imprecise” robots. And then if we’re not prevented by IP law “we” as individual or groups of people could also directly benefit from the free labor. And the more advanced these AI models become, the more we could liberating ourselves from wage slavery.

on Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Thanks, fair enough. If you want to hear my (shitty) take:

With the Chinese releasing “frontier models” like the 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 I do not believe a true monopoly is possible, unless IP law is extended to prevent open weight models to protect them from competition and make running local LLMs without paying a license fee illegal. Which does seem likely in the western world, but not in the rest.

I am not sure how much exactly the proclaimed intent or ideology matters vs gaining power or money. Basically what they write on their banners. But I do think it can matter quite a bit e.g. “socialism with Chinese characteristics” has done much good for the people, or even Iran’s theocracy which I don’t like but which has principles, even though they are obviously far from perfect. Generally I prefer people who believe in something, really anything, to neoliberals who believe in nothing.

So I don’t expect Anthropic to be paragons of humanism and communism either. And this connection is relatively mild. Hustlers gonna hustle. Very few capitalists would flinch at taking investments from questionable sources. So I would still support Anthropic with their “constitution” as the potentially better alternative to OpenAI or SpaceX. At least until they go public and forget to “not be evil”.

on Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Yeah I read the article. So the point is that Anthropic AI’s CEO’s wife once sought financing from Epstein after he got the most miniscule slap on the wrist, and therefor… ? What does that tell us? They have no morals when it comes to money? How is this a surprise or news? There must be thousands of such contacts with people seeking investment or a connection or this or that. Why single this person out?

on Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
Archive link

I don’t really see what’s the news here. So she approached Epstein for investment. How many else did that? She’s married to X which is relevant because she… ? Am I missing it?

Is this some sort of flak between billionaire class? WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.

on Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I was sarcastic. Maybe I’m being a bit unfair today.

But while fuckai is busy beating the drum for intellectual property expansion, a non-capitalist state like China has regulated their AI preventing workers being replaced by AI or regulating emotionally addictive companion bots. Meanwhile I have not heard a single actionable demand for regulation from fuckai.

So there is a problem with capitalists abusing AI. There is no problem fundamentally with LLMs themselves, they are just tools. They could be amazing to help with economic planning because it could allow to parse democratic input from millions of people.

IP laws are very much a tool of imperialist oppression. Patents are outright genocide, preventing rapid adoption of new technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. And ultimately the IP argument will lead to open weight models becoming “illegal”, monopolizing the “means of generation” and advanced robotics in the hands of the plutocrats. That is going to be “it” for the future of humanity then. They are going to pay a pittance in “general license costs”, replace more and more labor, while you can try to pirate an open source model to use this emergent technological power yourself.

on AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Yeah, memorization is a bug they have to fix. Like I said, then all problems will be solved.

on AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Now you’ve entered the land of fairy tales and make believe. A person who memorizes a book and then burns it and then recites to others would in fact not be put in front of a firing squad like you want to.

Not saying corporations are people (they are though) but they are literally not doing anything else than that. Now they only have to teach the AI to learn double think, to learn from the book, but then forget the book, only to be able to remember what that book was about, while being unable to faithfully repeat it.

That’s literally going to solve any and all problems with AI. It’s not like we should demand meaningful regulations about the actual problems like authoritarian China does. You know, because, think of the book publishers. They are people too!

on AI companies destroy physical books — let’s scan rare books before it’s too late in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
The irony of the Trump administration literally destroying all records of business ownership is insane. That is like the greatest destruction of evidence in the history of a country.

on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Sounds like you’re pretty talented with languages! But people learn differently. I would like to learn Chinese though. But I would like to learn a lot of things haha.

on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Lets say IP law is extended or reinterpreted to include that machine learning from book or papers or articles or comments requires a special license, even assuming the memorization problem is solved. This is what anti ai seems to be arguing.

This would then result in some kind of “deal”. Producers of AI models are required to pay some kind of overall license fee or percentage into some kind of public fund. Even Bernie Sanders suggested something like that. The problems I see:
1. The AI corporations can afford this and it will not really impact them in any way. The prices for AI rise a little. Free access is reduced.
2. Open Weight models may no longer be used freely. You could still pirate a Chinese one but while capitalists have access to any potential benefits in replacing labor with AI, for ordinary people it becomes an additional form of rent.
  Also in combination with advances in robotics, these AI models could do a lot to allow people to become “independent” by just telling your $6000 robot (actual price for a humanoid robot in china today) to plant some potatoes and vegetables there there and there, then clean the house etc. Or DIY build your own out of plywood, servos and a smartphone once technology advances.
3. The government through that fund gains an active interest in protecting that source of incoming and increase AI use, even if it does replace workers.
  This happened with the tobacco funds when vaping came around. Governments had leveraged the future payouts of these funds with banks for short term payouts and would have been in big trouble if vaping actually reduced smoking significantly.
on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
It was mentioned in the later part of this video: Eurasia Breaks USA: Three Front Defeat Forming | Prof. Radhika Desai.

But the source is this ASPI “Australian Strategy Policy Institute”. Ah found it: …org.au/aspis-critical-technology-tracker-2025-up…

In total, China now leads in 66 of the 74 technologies tracked, with the United States leading in the remaining eight—an imbalance that underscores why trusted partners need to act together to leverage comparative advantages, reduce concentration risk and shape the trajectory of critical technologies together.

Here is the list of technologies: techtracker.aspi.org.au/list-of-technologies The website seems a bit of a mess.

The video frames this as a function of neoliberalism slowly bleeding education and fundamental research dry (and also destroying demand because nobody can afford anything any more).

And also China has 1.4 billion people, invested into them and has slowly crept up the technology ladder, and now turn out an order of magnitude more engineers every year than the west.

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I wonder if they are going to use advanced AI translations including voices. That would really open up their content to the west. Although much of it is probably pretty weird as far as I’ve seen (via website / GrayJay) - but so is youtube if you wander off the save paths lol.

on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
How well does GrayJay work? Freetube used to work amazing but it’s a tug of war now with google which frequently bans my IP. And it’s yt only.

I found this article actually explaining how to bypass this for yt-dlp. But I wonder how far we’ll come to have this in a multi source app.

on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
This isn’t a new idea though, it was the “hacker” ethos of the 90s. Most nerds believed in that. But it was wrong because we do need to limit hate speech. Because racist speech is racist recruitment. And we do need to limit the influence of plutocrats and corporations on information.

I also believe neoliberalism is a failed and genocidal ideology that should similarly be banned like advocating for fascism.

Like the other commenter pointed out the other problem is the massive power imbalance. They have billions and they crush us. It doesn’t matter if something is right or wrong if billions are spend to hire the smartest sociopaths to craft an ad or PR campaign to emotionally manipulate the masses.

And the truth matters. We have a fundamental human right to reality. Constantly amplifying bullshit for revenue makes the actual flow of important information and ideas impossible.

on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I mean if you do need / have to use AI, you can buy tokens from China that use nuclear power plants. There should be a boycott for all AI providers that do not primarily use solar or wind or nuclear. With that branding China could literally outjerk the west in greenwashing lol.

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
They are working on cracking EUV lithography. From the sweatshop of the west to leading in 58 of 65 advanced technologies already. Neoliberalism has been the ruin of the west.

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Eastern China or westernmost state of the USA? You decide!

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Afaik Chinese DDR4 ram production is already keeping prices in that segment sane. They are working to break the ASML monopoly and sanctions on extreme violet light lithography to make the most advances chips and then will ramp up production. They are churning out like 10 times more engineers than the US and EU. They are ramping up but not sure when they will be able to compete at the highest level. I read 2030 earliest.

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Production of basic necessities and planning an economy is good. China build so many apartments they now have 90% home ownership instead of treating housing as a speculative asset. Now they caught up in high tech and in will be producing highest tech computer chips. And they are building nuclear power plants so you can actually buy AI tokens that do not contribute to the destruction of our world.

Also North Korea is far less dire than depicted these days. I wouldn’t want to live there but life expectancy is something like 74 years so overall it’s probably far from the worst country on earth.

You shouldn’t trust the mainsteam western media or institutions about any of this.

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
The US is ruled by a junta of oligarchs like the Nerd Reich techofeudalists backing Trump. They believe in nothing, only wealth and power. Trump is no King, but a puppet and the US empire has competing interests.

Xi Jinping is similarly not ruling like a king or dictator. He is accountable to 1.4 billion people and part of what drives his party is ideology. THEY BELIEVE IN SOMETHING. That alone makes them far less evil. They are not benign but they do have a track record of improving the material conditions of billions of people, less predatory economic imperialism and no foreign wars or interventions or coups destroying other nations.

There is no doubt which one is more evil. China now leads in like 58 of 65 advanced technologies. Lets just hope the remaining socialist idealism holds and they stay less evil.

on Chinese memory can now match the speed and latency configs of the RAM in our gaming PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Obviously fuck Meta, but the difference is the publishing. Scraping and copying for personal or business use is a civil matter. And machine learning from unlicensed material is also fine - as long as the material isn’t “memorized” and an AI model can’t reproduce it.

Aaron bravely published the papers which is a criminal matter. That is why I believe copyright and IP law is the real theft, they take down copies for people to learn from.

There are many many millions of people who read and learned from pirated textbooks and who use those skills to do things. Who watched pirated amines or comics use that to learn how to draw.

Basically we should not be siding with the unethical side of IP law just to oppose AI corporations. They can afford to buy the books and media, and a simple purchase will do. And they can afford the lawsuits. And they will figure out the memorization problem, so that AI models learn but not memorize (which is only happens in like 1% of the cases and only when you specifically ask for something “just like that”).

China (so far) is saying that the AI models they produce should be open weight and be available to all people on earth. So if we have any issues it should be with the monopolization of AI models that concentrate this new developing immense power of AI in the hands of a few plutocrats. Which the IP laws might actually help them with.

on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
The billions in funding for the AI corporations also went into B2B marketing, presentations for businesses and schools etc. A problem of neoliberalism / capitalism. The techbro half of AI psychosis is deliberately inflicted.

And the US / western economy collapsing isn’t only related to AI though. When the bubble pops there would have been massive layoffs anyways. The techno barbarians behind Trump literally want to dismantle and destroy the US to create their own fiefdoms from the rubble: The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy - Lemmy. So DOGE, the tarrifs, even Iran shutting down the oil supply is all desired by these people.

If we don’t solve the cause of these symptoms we’re not going to fix it.

on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 19 Aug 2026
I couldn’t find anything about concurrency. But I assumed it’s more like ~1000 users? B300 has something like 100,000+ tok/s, not sure about context size. I also was wrong on my math for the solar panels, see above. It’s more like +50% costs than 10%. Obviously all of this is napkin math, but even 50% isn’t too bad. My point is that with a slightly saner rollout of AI there seems to be absolutely no problem to make it sustainable. And if you buy your tokens in China you can select a data center that gets it’s power from nuclear or solar.

And yeah we don’t know how long they will release open weight models. Once hardware to run such open weight models become available they might change tactics. But right now China releasing these open models has a serious impact on the stock price of these AI companies, which is a good thing. The sooner the AI bubble pops the better.

And like 7 of the top 10 suppliers of tokens right now is from China apparently. What Xi himself said is that the world needs a multilateral approach and AI should not become a monopoly. And while that is clearly propaganda aimed at the global south, China does have a different approach. They spend peanuts on their AI models compared to the west (and the algorithmic breakthroughs done by Chinese AI researches afaik have also been published).

But you actually can use an existing model to generate training data for a new model. Which is what the US corporations are currently accusing China of doing, which is of course hilarious. Of course China has generated huge amounts of training data themselves. So basically any industrial country could in the future fund a research effort to produce a new AI model and make it open weights. A monopoly situation would be another huge issue with AI.

Basically in regulation, sustainability and democratizing access China is doing very good. And in poking the AI bubble.

on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
A single DGX B300 that could run Kimi for a few concurrent users, uses 14 kW.

Huh? 1400 TDP = 1.4 kW. This is official I believe.

And maybe my sources are off but: “As of July 2026, a single B300 GPU purchased outright runs about $53,000 (Spheron Network, July 5, 2026)” tech-insider.org/nvidia-blackwell-gpu-pricing/

Uh you’re right, you need about 4x so 270 kWh over the day, which requires about 270 / 6 * 24 = ~1000kW. With about 175€/kWp panels that is another 175 thousand plus installation. And something like 4000m². But that is all the energy costs for 30 years up front. The bigger constraint is the land use then.

on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
To make AI data centers sustainable with solar and batteries costs about 10% of the price of the base hardware. The AI hype is still insane but we can have a little AI.

on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Obviously the AI rollout should be slowed down and AI use regulated, like stopping any replacement of workers by AI.

But China is set to win the AI race with their open weight models on par with the current frontier models. And they are building nuclear power and solar and wind like no tomorrow. And they just started to produce sodium ion batteries to solve the grid storage problem.

Spurned by the embargo they are developing more efficient algorithms and “Extreme UV lithography” to catch up to the embargoed chips. The neoliberal model of the west is now falling behind even the high tech sectors.

In case anyone is curious it takes 8 Nvidia B300 cards to run this Kima K3 frontier model yourself (2.8 trillion parameters), costs about half a million. For a big corporation or institutions even in the global south that is relatively cheap and that is the top tier option for running a frontier model. Including complete data sovereignty. Using AMD will be cheaper, and prices will go down once China catches up in like 2030. And you could run that on solar panels and batteries and regenerative water cooling. 8x 1.4kW x24 so maybe 300 kWh LiFePo4 battery so another 50k. To power one complete AI server you’d need about 134 m² in solar panels which are basically free these days.

For solar panels you’d need about 270 / 6 * 24 = ~1000kW. With about 175€/kWp panels that is another 175 thousand plus installation. And something like 4000m². Plus chargers, and large public pool to cool those 270kW. But that is all the energy costs for 30 years up front. The bigger constraint is the land use then.

So basically less than 10% 50% extra costs upfront to make AI data centers sustainable. This is a capitalism problem, both the hype / bubble / psychosis (b2b marketing induced) as well as the sustainability question.

on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Even Linus is conflating “doing more” with “being more productive”.

No he isn’t:

Torvalds’ broader argument is that generating code has become easy, while maintaining a system over years or decades remains hard — and AI does not close that gap on its own. Without a working understanding of the underlying architecture, he suggested, AI assistance can help someone make mistakes faster rather than build something durable.

on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
This is a pretty bananas idea, but I wondered if in the future we’ll be able to have something like a large robot arm “throw” a small plane from the top of a skyscraper as well as catch it for landing. Something like a modified trebuchet, slowly storing energy in a suspended weight to power throwing the plane, or to store the energy from catching the plane. We’d probably need further advances in robotics control, and the arm might need to be too heavy to be fast enough. And overall this makes even less sense than a catapult / puller that is already in use for gliders.

on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Since a plane requires the most thrust at takeoff, you could use ground-based

Actually dragging (or wheeling in) a wire or having a wire car supplying the plane with electricity during takeoff would work too.

I think the only realistic use case is going to be short trips. For long range offsetting the carbon for jet fuel just makes more sense.

But really small personal vehicles could be interesting. There is the Pivotal BlackFly which can VTOL and uses less electricity than a big electric car - and it needs to roads. So for commuting this could actually work to save on infrastructure.

on First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
What movie is that meme template from?

on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 13 Aug 2026
Ah what the heck after the 5th time reloading it did work lol

on New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Sorry for ranting lol. But it pisses me off especially when it comes from science news. Elsevier and sciencedirect is another service that blocks me, and I’m not even using a VPN or super secure browser.

Soon more and more webpages will only work with “authentic Chrome” or some shit, and block all VPNs. And then soon you’ll have to log into chrome. And that will create a permanent link with your government ID. I’m just tired of this predictable evil trajectory of technology. The internet was supposed to destroy tyranny, not join it!

on New sodium-ion battery skips mechanical cooling with 97.9% efficiency in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026
Cute.

on Chinese Scientists Made Glowing Plants with Firefly DNA to Replace Streetlights in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Aug 2026