I made a comment to a beehaw post about something similar, I should make it a post so the .world can see it.

I’ve been running the 14B distilled model, based on Ali Baba’s Qwen2 model, but distilled by R1 and given it’s chain of thought ability. You can run it locally with Ollama and download it from their site.

That version has a couple of odd quirks, like the first interaction in a new session seems much more prone triggering a generic brush-off response. But subsequent responses I’ve noticed very few guardrails.

I got it to write a very harsh essay on Tiananmen Square, tell me how to make gunpowder (very generally, the 14B model doesn’t appear to have as much data available in some fields, like chemistry), offer very balanced views on Isreal and Palestine, and a few other spicy responses.

At one point though I did get a very odd and suspicious message out of it regarding the “Realis” group within China and how the government always treats them very fairly. It misread “Isrealis” and apparently got defensive about something else entirely.

In a rich man’s house, there’s no where to spit except for his face.

Seems like the cross post isn’t displaying quoted content (for me on Voyager mobile anyway) so I just wanted to add that in the original post, there is a long discussion I wrote highlighting some interesting aspects of this output. Please click through if you’d like to know more!

It’s already happening. This article takes a long look at many of the rising threats to nvidia. Some highlights:

• Google has been running on their own homemade TPUs (tensor processing units) for years, and say they on the 6th generation of those.

• Some AI researchers are building an entirely AMD based stack from scratch, essentially writing their own drivers and utilities to make it happen.

• Cerebras.ai is creating their own AI chips using a unique whole-die system. They make an AI chip the size of entire silicon wafer (30cm square) with 900,000 micro-cores.

So yeah, it’s not just “China AI bad” but that the entire market is catching up and innovating around nvidia’s monopoly.

The posts about claim-reversals are just something I’ve seen a few posts about here and on FB, no news sources.

I do have a semi-related Snopes article: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anthem-blue-cross-shield-anesthesia/ Anthem BCBS had an unpopular anesthesia policy that they walked back on December 5th. Probably a coincidence.

But also, here’s several stories about people expressing their outrage.

Americans hate their private health insurance

Brian Thompson’s killing sparks outrage over state of US healthcare

UnitedHealthcare Denies More Claims Than Other Insurers — Angering Patients And Health Systems

After shooting, UnitedHealthcare comes under scrutiny for AI use in treatment approval

All of these had been in the news, but the killing has pushed the conversation center stage. It’s a strange and funny time too, since Trump is promising to roll back the ACA and make all of this much worse. People apparently just have no idea that the ACA and Obamacare are the same thing, or that it’s the reason they even have insurance at all.

All the “my claims magically aren’t being denied anymore after the 4th” posts are telling me that this action has already started saved lives. Theres a national conversation now happening about how the industry got so bad that more Americans are celebrating this execution than not, and what needs to be done to (nonviolently) fix the problem. Publicly killing a CEO proved to be an effective solution literally in the first 24 hours.