alt Hacker NewsYeah the Chinese totally have a really good history with being completely open and giving lol. The Chinese government totally has not been hacking into American and Western fortune 500 companies for the past few decades stealing R&D and tech to use for themselves. The Chinese also totally do not steal hundreds of billions of dollars of IP from America annually. Totally not something they would do!
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I don't see how stealing IP is inconsistent with a sympathy for openness. If anything, it's the opposite. "Information wants to be free" and all that. They were just liberating those secrets ;)
Thank god US AI companies generated all of the training data themselves and certainly didn’t just steal it all.
Industrial espionage is neither a chinese invention nor (specifically) chinese practice. American companies do it to each other even.
Whether or not this is really true or just US propaganda, the majority of technology transfer has occurred through the open process of requiring US companies to form partnerships and disclose know-how to access the chinese market. This stuff about espionage is really sour grapes from losers.
How can you steal something that won't materially be less from that? IP laws are cancer, and are definitely not in humanity's interest.
Why do you think competing companies poach engineers from each other?
It is hilarious to see people from arguable the most polarized political systems in the world believing the evil 1.5 billion people across the sea share one single mind, either a saint, or a devil.