Big AI is a thing. Insane money and construction projects makes the government invested in it one way or the other. It can't fail or it'll cause economic shock. It's a play to normalize it and make everyone depend on it before people question how they trained it all on their data and now drive them out of their jobs.

If they ask for a moat they will get it, the government can simply require licensing for hardware required to run any model comparable to the cloud ones (for "national security"). good local models will only be used by .01% who are crazy neckbeards running servers in their basement and even then they will suck compared to cloud ones.

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swiftcoder a day ago | parent [-]

> If they ask for a moat they will get it, the government can simply require licensing for hardware required to run any model comparable to the cloud ones (for "national security")

This is the "moat by US regulatory capture" I mentioned above, but it only extends to the US, and pretty much cedes the rest of the world to the Chinese labs. It only makes sense if the US is going to become an isolationist power

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ShinyLeftPad 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Why do you assume the rest of the world is going to be under PRC labs? First it assumes the rest if the world will go as nuts on LLMs as US which if they see the same future as the author they might not. But even if they do, if PRC could do it, Europe could do it.

	▲	swiftcoder 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> But even if they do, if PRC could do it, Europe could do it. Sure, my point is that in this scenario, the US labs would lose out on all the overseas business, regardless of whoever else is training models for the rest of the world