You should try the comparison between the larger models and the distilled models yourself before you make judgment. I suspect you’re going to be surprised by the output.

All of the models are basically generating possible outcomes based on noise. So if you ask it the same model the same question five different times and five different sessions you’re going to get five different variations on an answer.

You will find that an x out of five score between models is not that significantly different.

For certain cases larger models are advantageous. If you need a model to return a substantial amount of content to you. If you’re asking it to write you a chapter story. Larger models will definitely give you better output and better variation.

But if you’re asking you to help you with a piece of code or explain some historical event to you, The average 14B model that will fit on any computer with a video card will give you a perfectly serviceable answer.

That’s not quite it either.

The model itself is just a giant ball of math. They made a thing that can transform an English through the collected knowledge of much of humanity a few dozen times and have it crap out a reasonable English answer.

The open source part is kind of a misnomer. They explained how they cooked the meal but not the ingredient list.

To complete the analogy, their astounding claim is that they managed to cook the meal with less fire than anyone else has by a factor of like 1000.

But the model itself is inherently safe. It’s not like it’s a binary that can carry a virus or do crazy crap. Even convincing it to do give planned nefarious answers is frankly beyond our capabilities so far.

The dangerous part that proton is looking at and honestly is a given for any hosted AI, is in the hosting server side of things. You make your requests to their servers and then their servers put the requests into the model and return you the output.

If you ask their web servers for information about tiananmen square they will block you.

You can, however, download the model yourself and run it yourself and there’s not any security issues there.

It will tell you anything that you need to know about tiananmen square.

Yeah the article is mostly legit points that if your contacting the chatpot in China it is harvesting your data. Just like if you contact open AI or copilot or Claude or Gemini they’re all collecting all of your data.

I do find it somewhat strange that they only talk about deep-seek hosting models.

It’s absolutely trivial just to download the models run locally yourself and you’re not giving any data back to them. I would think that proton would be all over that for a privacy scenario.

The whole market’s about to roll into recession. All the companies are trying to get ahead of their firing before the market goes tits up.

presidential library

It’s probably a human trafficking hub, his friends check out people.

I liked it back when link aggregators were the go-to for discovery. You could have sites that were real gems that were just tucked away.

I think the indexing started out ok. Counting backlinks and using that as a ranking was pretty genius, right up until people realized they could game the system, then google realized that artificially screwing with their own system was worth money, then the used ads to modify ranking.

ads to modify discoverability the death of free internet

re though. It could very well include subscriptions rather than the actual servicing of their cars? Or maybe both?

true. the report is very very vague

“Web Scrapers: Many web scrapers and bots do not respect robots.txt at all, as they are often designed to extract data regardless of the site’s crawling policies. This can include malicious bots or those used for data mining.”

Your definition of organic traffic is off-standard. When people say organic, they generally mean non-paid, including returns on web search.

The VAST majority of the web would have almost no traffic without web searches. It’s not like people flock to sites from talking about it around the water cooler.

Service being up 30% is a bad thing for the consumer. For a vehicle that doesn’t require much at all in the way of service…

Every other executive and most of the management in the country deals with this. Hell even the lowest level of workers deal with this in the opposite direction. Probably 3/4 of the white collar workforce deals with this.

We’re all working under the same constraints here.

In my immediate private and professional spheres, I have a pretty good idea of who will or will not keep a secret. In that mental list, 10% of it is easily wrong that is highly situation-dependent. Each one of them that would pass the information on has their own private and professional sphere whom they think won’t pass information.

It is simply not possible to pass information to your entire company without expecting it to get out.

It might piss him off but it’s absolutely to be expected. If you want to tell your company that Trump has you by the balls without getting in trouble, you say: We have recently made some very controversial changes to our policies. We as a company do not support these controversial changes and and we are not able to disclose details about the situation, We are being coerced to make these changes, and we really have no choice other than to comply or severely modify the operation of our company.

That right there tells you what’s going on, But in such a vague method that it can’t be reported back to the orange goblin.

Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained data the same way OpenAI did. –FTFY

1. Name the company involved a military asset
2. Forbid US companies from hosting the models
3. Pressure foreign companies to not work with them

OMG Competition!

QUICK, they’re a foreign threat! They’re coming right for us!!!

There are chemistries that are less volatile But they’re less energy dense as well.

The biggest problem I see on most of the Chinese stuff is a lack of safety in the battery packs. They’re just mass-producing cells and shoving them together, It wouldn’t be very expensive to put a small battery management system on every cell. Watch each cell for voltage and temperature. Have them shut down when they’re out of safety margins

They’re absolutely is, it’s called onion routing, get around DNS blocks with tor as long as you know where you’re going.

invest in VPN providers

I’m guessing lofgren has already done that

I thought I was smelling some more of that over there lately.

Why the fuck aren’t they just dropping this shit off at my door?

Why do I need to go into a convenience store when there’s no convenience?

You don’t need advertisers when you’ve got the garment in your pocket. Don’t you worry that little deposit he made into the White House coffers won’t let him plenty of sweet cash.