Well, they are helping 17% of the world's population, and the US is currently actively engaged in trade wars and economic warfare or explicitly attempting to leverage it's hegemony against its long term alliea for short term gain.

There is as much to criticize about American hyper scalers and AI labs and the lack of interest in helping humanity or contributing to open source, but that might not be as popular an opinions on this site.

▲

gpugreg 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Only 17%? I'd say driving down the price of AI helps at least 95% of the world's population. It certainly helps me.

▲

benterix 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I assume 17% is roughly the percentage of people that use LLMs globally (the numbers vary between 15 and 20 percent).

	▲	bredren 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Amazingly low, given potential impact. Where is this use concentrated? Who has the best data on use right now.

▲

ygjb 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

17% is the approximate population of Earth in China. I was using a simple example as a counter to the anglocentric view the parent poster was expressing by trying to paint China as a villain.

▲

locknitpicker 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Well, they are helping 17% of the world's population,

Any open weights model that Chinese companies are releasing for free are allowing everyone in the world to have access to high quality realizations of these tools without the risk of the US regime arbitrarily cutting you off.

Also, it's funny how all the neoliberal mantras of how free market drives progress through competition stops when it's a US company that's being challenged.

▲

1234letshaveatw 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I suppose in some sense preventing nuclear holocaust is a short term gain...

▲

ygjb 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What nuclear holocaust has the only country to use a nuclear weapon against a target prevented?

Do you think the world is closer to or more distant from large scale global conflict today than it was 10 years ago, or even 3 years ago?

▲

1234letshaveatw 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Iran has expressed a willingness/eagerness to nuke Israel and the US. That outcome would be less than ideal

	▲	overfeed 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Iran has expressed a willingness/eagerness to nuke Israel and the US. Source? The last Supreme Leader of Iran issued a fatwa against nukes, way before he and his extended family where bombed in their home in a failed attempt at a decapitation strike.