At the end of the day it hurts U.S. consumers to not have Chinese cars mainstream in the market. We lose out on features and stagnate on innovation because we are not pushed to compete.

I can’t imagine this would be any different — banning open weight models would hurt us in the long run. The point is to beat the competition, not suppress it.

There should be no limits on open or custom models. Too often safety is a synonym for surveillance and control. It’s a natural consequence, intended or not.

I am curious… why can’t distillation be stopped?

As a side not Im not against protectionism, but it has to be across the board and the same in all industries with no excrptions. We’ve let all these industries die on the vine due to cheap cost in foreign countries. It could very well happen to ai.

This is the real answer to the op.

It’s incredible how overblown these sorts of things can become

If the customer can run the scanner and find the vuln, that means they can log in, right? Which means they can RCE.

Not always, it can be run at static code analysis or the container repository (not the prod one)?

Yes— they spy on every pic and text upload. They literally are big brother.

I uploaded a picture to Google Maps once. They told me they needed to access my photos to be able to upload the picture.

A week later I get a notification “hey do you want to upload this photograph of a restaurant you took at location x?”. So Google Maps was busy rifling through my photos while I was going about my day-to-day business.

Creepy, gross and repulsive.

GrapheneOS has storage scopes which make the app think it has full folder/file access but in reality you can choose the exact files or folders to give access. It helps keep invasive apps in line.

So does iOS. That's why this caught me by surprise. Does Android not have this built in?

On iOS, it tells the app you only gave it limited access, and that causes some apps to badger you for full access or refuse to work without full access.

On iOS, there's the picker for access. It doesnt trick the app into thinking it has full access. All apps should just be forced to use the private picker style which is convenient and private.

This feature is to make privacy-invasive apps, that want to snoop and degrade functionality if they don't, behave.

Yes, they scan your photos and text and look for reasons to report you to a government agency. They can completely misinterpret or fabricate what you have with no real controls other than good faith.

For somethings I think they are legally obligated to do this. It is creepy.

You mean mortars ?

Yes: cost, speed, and reliability.

But all of those things are improving at shocking speeds, so I think we’re on a path where code is losing value quickly.

Yeah, I agree. It will be like serverless but for code : codeless.

It’s a disconcerting future.

Why disconcerting?

Seems like the reshaping of an industry and is disconcerting for those of us who work in it.

Just post to the database then asynch send to message queue. Messages should still be idempotent by the consumer but at least this follows rest and is transactional.

It’s simple and easy to follow. At scale use multi tenancy.

Every time I send a work email I leak my pii. We should all use government issued uuids on linked in / facebook.

Not OP but I fit into this category (Small Business owner in the US).

Yes, I’m in the US but I somehow doubt my single person LLC is going to qualify for access to these cutting edge models. And frankly, that’s bullshit.

This will only serve to further entrench the big players and the only way to get access to these models will be to already be successful or bribery. That’s a pretty bleak future.

One thing I’ve thought (and said often) throughout my career (and even before “my career” started in High School) was that if I can see something being done at another company (some product feature, cool concept, etc) I will be able to replicate it. Yes large companies have more people but they are just people, if they could do it, so could I (given time/energy).

This is the first time I’ve felt that start to waver. Yes, I was always limited by being 1 person, but I always felt there was a path available to success. I might not have access to supercomputers but I could bootstrap and get by on lower powered hardware as I scaled up.

LLM’s themselves even felt in range if it was something I was interested in pursuing (on a _much_ smaller scale of course).

Essentially, I had the same tools (frameworks, libraries, languages) at my disposal as the big companies. Now that’s changing and I really don’t like that the scale is going be tilted even further into the entrenched company’s favor.

Yeah, I agree completely. This is very worrisome and is creating a multi class system.

I wonder why the U.S. is only interested in protecting its car industry and not others.

Because of lobbying. That's usually the answer when policies don't make sense

Both oil and gas lobbying against BEV and USA auto manufacturers who outsource or offshore all their parts already.

USA auto makers can’t compete at China Ev (subsidized?) pricing and probably quality.

Yeah, not many industries can compete but I don’t understand the fixation on only preserving auto.

It still has a car industry. Not the best nor the worst choices and some are even made in the us I think. Some in Canada/Mexico at least at the moment.

I agree with this, and it really exposes how two faced and scandalous these companies are.

They all love green energy, but will they use that for their data centers in your backyard?

Rules for the and not for me !