alt Hacker NewsI get all that.
Then alternatives are:
- Grok - where I absolutely have 0 trust in X.ai's interst in "pushing humanity forward".
- OpenAI and Anthropic - which seem to try to be building the biggest moat they can by pushing to ban open models. And at the same time want to be an Arbiter of what level of intelligence I can use.
- Google and Meta - I don't need to talk about the practices of these companies.
Yes, the terms of service aren't great. But the alternatives aren't great either. I don't believe that a future which OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing for has my best interest in mind.
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Or Deepseek, Qwen, any other open model hosted by whoever you trust most.
All the American companies you mentioned still follow American law and regulation. Skirting that blatantly has big consequences.
Chinese companies do not follow American laws and there are absolutely no consequences for violating it.
Moreover, the average American is not even aware of exactly what the legal/judicial environment is like in China. If your code and data is stolen, you can't fly to China and demand justice in the courts.
> I don't believe that a future which OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing for has my best interest in mind.
I don't believe in that either, but these totalitarian terms are absolutely unacceptable.