Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm
BakerBagel@midwest.social 9 hours agoThere is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM’s from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn’t want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.
FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 hours ago
Deepseek was trained from scratch.
That aside, you're basically describing the second option I presented; letting everyone else do the AI thing instead.