Interesting read. Here’s a link without the paywall: https://archive.ph/...
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Anthropic has accused DeepSeek, Moonshot and another Chinese AI lab, MiniMax, of “industrial-scale distillation attacks” — illegally extracting capabilities from its proprietary Claude model using 24,000 fraudulent accounts to gain an edge
Anthropic’s says:
Illicitly distilled models lack necessary safeguards, creating significant national security risk
So open weight models are a national security risk? Guess we’d all better pay subscriptions, let the data centers be built, and let a couple companies building proprietary models have a monopoly to protect our security, then. 🙄
I drove past the construction site every day. They call it "The Barn" after hiring a marketing firm to come in and try to make it more appealing. It's massive and just gets bigger and bigger. iirc they got permission to begin construction before it was approved, then the zoning drama began. There's now a razor wire fence around the perimeter and the area is patrolled by state cops during the day. Clearly they know the situation.
The worst thing is I constantly get targeted ads about the construction. The ads say "we'll pay for the giant increase in energy consumption" and "it'll help reduce costs for everyone!" which is obvious horseshit. What costs are gonna go down, how will they be reduced? Energy costs? Fuel costs? Taxes? The marketing firm knows people are stupid enough to believe anything, even sentences that don't make any fucking sense.
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