The Soft Bans on Open-Weight AI Models Out of China Are Starting by @theouterlight on 3Speak
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Hi, this is Ed back again with another video. Shout out to everybody on Patreon and Subscribestar. Thank you for your support. Of course, if you do want to support my channel, you can do that at the links you see below, patreon.com slash the outer dark or subscribe star.com slash the outer light. So, there's a lot of, there's a lot of push behind the scenes in order to reconfigure. relationships with China. The West is quickly losing its leverage. What was its leverage? Well, pro-Western interests, or like Taiwan, Korea, etc., where they create advanced chips, they were, you know, had very strengthened relationships with the West, in fact, you know, Korea has thousands and thousands of troops, US troops in it. you know, there was this kind of agreement of protection with Taiwan, but now China is creating its own advanced chips, right? And that means the leverage disappears, and, you know, when you get up on the podium, and you say, we're banning chip exports to China, or we're doing whatever, they used to do, right? We're banning graphics cards and videos no longer to sell them to China. How are we living in... a free market. The president in the United States, Trump goes up and says, you're not allowed to sell this, you're not allowed to sell this. What about this? What do the stockholders think of this? Not allowed to make money? Well, he's allowed to make money. He's tripled, ways made in 60 years, he's tripled his wealth just in the first term. So he's sure believes in selling everything everywhere. So here you have a leverage system which now doesn't exist for the West. The chips themselves, of this advanced chip making was seen as so esoteric. You know, it's like, you know, if you zoom in from a satellite onto a city, and then you zoom into the buildings, and then you zoom into the, a person. then you zoom into the sidewalk, then you zoom into an ant or something, and then you go into the submicron level, you know, like the makeup of their exoskeleton, you know, a part of the chitin on the exoskeleton, and then you go deeper and deeper, down to the atoms moving around, and then you go onto the atom, and then you go deeper and deeper, right? So that's kind of a kind of weird scale at which to build. and everybody seems to not be able to replicate it. It seems almost magical, to the point where it gave birth to that idea, what people are saying, they're speculating that maybe aliens have come down and only given certain countries the ability to make these advanced microchips, because why can't other countries do it? Why is it? You have to have, they say, 30, 40 years worth of built-up networks in terms of securing metals, knowledge and things like that to have an attempt it for what they were saying, or at least I was researching last year when I was on the subject and it was saying that it might take China 30, 40 years to be able to turn into Korea. Well, that's not the case, in fact, it's taken one year. Okay? I think that conversation came from the AI, actually, when I was asking it, why is this? saying, it was like a smoking a pipe or a metaphorical pipe saying, you know, listen, they can't catch up to us. I'm smoking a cigar. Like 30, 40 years behind, you know? 30 years ago, they're riding bicycles. No way they're going to catch up. Well, they have, and leverage has disappeared. And now what? Now what's happening? Well, the other problem is, is you have this AI Bible, where a lot of frontier models, which are embedded with the government. Remember, Anthropic has Pentagon, well, the no-no to Pentagon contracts, and then again, they amalgamated. But Open AI sure has those kinds of contracts. I mean, they literally will sell out to whoever. They don't have any moral structure any of these places. They couldn't essentially... you know, corporations, so they're quintessentially psychopathic, acting in their own interests, to make, you know, tons of money, except there's so much greed, right? It's almost like the ship is sinking under the greed. But they're connected to the government. So what they've started doing is calling for regulation. You know, we have to regulate is too dangerous. Anthropics going, oh my God, well, Open AI is saying, I've invented a genie. If you grant any wishes, this is what were they saying. It's dangerous. You're saying that they invented superintelligence in AGI. Of course they are. If you're selling a home share or whatever the case is, you're not going to say, it's amazing, it's beautiful. In fact, did you know that Tom Cruise lives next door? Sometimes, I think it's Tom Cruise, right? Tom Cruise comes over, and I think it's him. I'm not saying it's him for legal reasons, but... Yeah, I think I've seen Tom Cruise next door. I think he lives there. Of course you're going to say all this stuff, right? There's Brad Pitt. There's whoever, whatever celebrity, right? You know, Brad Pitt lives next door. You know what, he's on a boat sometime. I'm not saying it for legal reasons. I'm not saying it's Brad Pitt. Allegedly it's Brad Pitt. Okay, but yeah, wink, wink, it's Brad Pitt. You know, and, you know, it goes on, right. This is, though, the large frontier language models. And then they're also saying, but we need regulation because it's so dangerous, right? I've seen, over across the water from the home share or whatever, I seen, like, I think it was Al-Qaeda. I'm not 100%, okay? But they had, like, camouflage on, and they were waving these, like, flags that looked like Al-Qaeda. You might say, well, I thought Al-Qaeda was, you know, taken out. Donald Trump said they they eviscerated them and they say, oh, Hamas, I think it was Hamas, right? They had these, like, RPGs, and they're like, do you know what I mean? It's just, I've invented a genie, everybody. Oh, super intelligence is coming. Well, prove it. Prove it, then. If you have AGI, prove it. Now, They are saying this to their investors, right? They're saying this to, I think my audio is peaking out again, so let me just turn down my mic a little bit here. Hopefully that's better. I just don't want it to start peeking out and going red all the time, but, so hopefully that caught it. But anyway, that's what's happening. the leverage is disappearing, and now they're calling for regulation. To the point I've seen this myself last night, I was using open code, and I was talking to it, we're having a conversation about something, and I'm aware I'm having a conversation with a machine, but it's actually a reflection of humanity, given the amount of knowledge that it's, you know, trained on, right? So you're actually talking to some kind of... Well, it's a guessing machine, but it's got a lot of different parts. It gives the illusion of intelligence. But nonetheless, I was asking it some questions. I can't remember what that was about. I think I was asking about how to make cottage cheese or something, you know, something meaningless. And this pop-up came up on OpenCode. Now, I'm subscribed or recently to OpenCode. Go subscription. Now, I used to use Olama, which I thought had very generous usage, and I don't have a problem with it at all. I'm doing about it's an API, but I moved over to OpenCode Go because it was cheaper, and I thought I'd just try it out, you know, it was $5, you know, got this coupon for it. It wasn't really a coupon, but it was just a spare advertisement on OpenCode. So I go, yeah, I'll try it for $5. It's like, you know, $3 US. So, you know, I'm using it, I'm happy with, I think the usage is, you know, quite generous. Of course, the subscription will go up to 18 after I've had this promotion, which lasts a month, but it's cancelled any time. No, this isn't a promotion for it, I'm just giving you some backstory. So, I think the usage is general, etc. So I'm using it, I'm pleased with it, and then as pop-up suddenly comes up, it says, It says the latest version of the model is only available hosted in China and requires explicit opt-in. Now, here's the thing about Alama. Alama hosts their own models. So they have DeepSeek, I believe, is just hosted on there. I know they host all their own models, but, no, especially open-source models. But GoP and Go is using, apparently, the model is hosted in China. I don't really care because I'm not using it for anything, okay? I'm just asking some random questions to it. or getting it to, I don't know, fix a sink on my hard drive or something, you know. But they have free models as well as OpenCode comes with free models that have actually quite generous. Well, basically the free models, every single day you get a generous amounts of usage before you hit a red line and then it resets the next day. But that's more than most people need. But I need a bit more because I'm doing some stuff. I'm getting to read big documents, stuff like that. doing some research and so you've got open code and it pops up with this saying it's hosted in China and this is where I see it, it's going to try to regulate so the idea is to attack Chinese models that a lot of people use because they're cheapest chips and then and people can host these models themselves, right? But I don't have a cluster, right? And, you know, they're using the API out of China at this particular stage. As I said, with Olama, you can use this on Olamour, on its, your own hosted, like, little server thing. Actually, it's a lot of people using the same server, which is good for randomization and privacy, but they say that they keep it completely private and they don't share the data, for whatever that's worth. I don't know if that's true or not, but the main point is now comes signs of trying to regulate these open source models, okay? Well, these cheap models, and open source models, especially anything that comes out of China, and a lot of the stuff that's come out of China has been these real frontier models, right, that people are using. And, you know, they're not using Anthropic because it's like, You know, for instance, Kimi K2 is one -third the price of Fable. Now, it's not as good as Fable yet, but it's still good enough for nearly everything that anybody would ever want. Anthropic and OpenCode, sorry, Anthropic and Open AI, which are embedded with the US government, have decided to go on the spree of, we need more regulation, it's too dangerous, we let the genie out of the bottle. Look, look! It's crazy, the genies out of the bottle, it's AGI, they want regulation so that they can grow and they can put weed killer on all the other models. That's basically it. Once again, it's like the community comes together, right? And not saying that China's doing, dumping these big models and spending billions of dollars training on them to dump in the Western market for purely good intentions, although the outcome is good for us, right? They're doing it in order to bust these other models, okay, you know, like your open AI will destroy this bubble, right? This little time bomb, which will take down the US economy. And, you know, then there'll be bailouts, right, because you can't let any of these greedy individuals that just manipulating the markets actually lose money. The banks have to be bailed out. Sam Altman, he's, look at him, he's got a can. It's like running down the street need some cash in it. So, once again, it's like the community comes to get a quintessentially in metaphor. They start breeding some different types of wheat together to create a new type of wheat that has a yield that's, let's say, 10 times higher. We can't have that happen. So the Trump administration has to come in there with napalm and burn all the fields down and confiscate this new type of wheat. That's what's happening. Something, no matter where it comes from, is massively benefiting humanity. You don't have to run this out of China. You can run this out of a cluster, you know, a business could get like an array of Mac minis and create a little cluster and run it with inside their own company closed, not connected to the internet, nothing, but in an internal network where it can, you know, can... you know, search documents, things like that, maybe legal files or whatever the case is, whatever your scenario is, obviously you have to check it, but it's much easier saying compile like 30 documents related to this case. for me to look at, you know, if I'm a lawyer, and then it gives me the documents, and then cross-reference that to make sure all this is real and add new things to it, than it is to go out there hand by hand and try to go from memory, or searching through these big volumes of books for what you're looking for. So there are many use, obviously huge amounts of use cases for this technology, and it can be run on clusters. Why Macs are not PCs? Well, Mac has a proprietary memory system where they put a lot of bets on, you know, basically where you have graphics cards on your PC, on a Mac, you can do it with a memory, and the Mac's come with 120 gigs worth of memory. 200 gigs worth of memory. Now, it's expensive right now, because the AI data centers have blown up the price of RAM and everything, but that means you can run these huge models, such as Gemma, well, Gemma, not Gemma 4, but, you know, big, big models, whatever the model size is, which you can't do unless you had a graphics card array on a PC, right? You need an array of graphics cards in order to run these things in comparable to a Mac system. That's why a lot of people you see are buying these Mac minis because it's just the way that it handles or it's designed in its system in order to handle RAM. Let's keep on going here. So as you've seen, So have you seen there is like large volumes, they say 50,000 people falling off Moroccan boats, the back of dump trucks, have invaded, basically, Spain. Why isn't this an invasion? Because some politician wrote something somewhere and some from the World Economic Forum, they blurred what this is and turned this into a humanitarian crisis. I've seen out of these... well, the videos I seen, out of all these people swarming the beach, I didn't see one woman, I didn't see one child, okay, the only woman I seen was the one that was welcoming them in to Spain. But apparently it's 50,000 have spawned onto this island, you know, in Spain, part of Spain, obviously. and they've just spawned on there in huge volumes. How is this not, how is this a humanitarian crisis? What are they escaping Morocco from? Morocco has food supply. Morocco has, in fact, a lower crime rate, I looked it up, than United States. It's like one-fifth that of the UK also. So it's semi-peaceful. Okay? So who's on these boats? People say the people on these boats are from prisons. This is what people are saying, not enough it's true, from psychiatric wards, or whatever the case is, they're thrown on boats and they're rejected from society in order to invade Spain. So, you have these huge numbers, invading what? What's the war going on in Morocco? Morocco is a semi-stable country. As I said, it's semi-peaceful. I looked up the price for renting a room, it's about renting a house, it's about $360. That's actually round about the monthly wage, which obviously they don't get paid heaps, but it's stable, and the food is cheap, the way of living is cheap. So what are they escaping? Now, back in 2019, there were agreements and a lot of different things in normalizing the relationship between these Muslim countries, this one specifically and Israel. So a lot of people pointing to a conspiracy involving Israel. In fact, there was these statements from Israeli politicians saying basically to Spain, if you know you had, I've been our friend, this would not have happened to you, and people pointing to that is... you know, either Israel's endorsing this or Israel's like, you know, could be Israel's making just a statement that's not connected. But that's what people are saying, right? Because Spain came out against what was happening in Gaza. against what's happening to the Palestinians. It's got more of a left-leaning government, which is largely pro-immigration, and now this creates a catastrophic problem with the ideology that runs the system, not accepting this much people who are what, refugees? Are they refugees from where? Where are they refugees from? Morocco. The refugees from Morocco, as I said, it's got a very low crime rate. As far as I'm aware, not in some kind of, like, what I mean is there's not, like, open civil war happening or something, right? And where are all the women and children? I've seen some that could be considered, or they look like they're younger, but... That's what you have. Notre Dameus. apparently quoted as saying, they will come across the sea like locusts, but they will not be animals. I'm not a believer in Notre Dameus, I've got to say. Some of the stuff's interesting, but I just, I mean, it's, what would you, I mean, I, it's like the Barnum statement. I think I talked about this a few. a week ago saying, a Barnum statement is something used in cold reading where you stay a statement and then below it, it can be interpreted many, many different ways, right? I can't remember where I've seen someone talking about it. It doesn't matter anyway, but that is a Barnum statement. Basically, Notre Dameus is just making statements. He's from, like, the, what was it, 1 ,500s, right? So the problem with that is over hundreds of years, and hundreds of different political configurations and country configurations and symbolic configurations around the world, you're just going to get things that apply to what he's stating. Although there are some interesting stuff he said regarding World War II and the pig-faced men, who did look like men wearing gas masks, 49,000 immigrants flooded the Spanish enclave there. in 24 hours, Spain deployed heavily armored vehicles, which start doing nothing, but they are wearing, I must admit, face masks for some reason, right? See, there's some here that look young, maybe they're around about 14 or something, no doubt, throwing on the boats. So, there is Spain itself. Now, how do they know it's 49,000 immigrants? There's no way to tell, because they're not, how are they counting them? You can count crowds if you have a photograph of a crowd to an approximation because X amount of people fit within, you know, within, let's say, a square meter or whatever the case is, right, if they're semi-tightly packed, so you can make estimates. These people are just flooding off random boats, flooding, falling off the back of dump trucks. They're dripping in there. Spain used to be a superpower. They used to control the oceans and a lot of the world. So here is what the scene looks like. Let me just blow this up a little bit. So there, I've got some music actually. Let me play a little bit of music here. So ethnically, they might be similar to the Spanish accidentally, just because of the approximation and, you know, throughout history, but culturally they're very different. So culture changes, it disappears, based upon exactly this. This is how culture is changed. Are you a culturalist? People are comparing it to World War Z, actually. Look at the seas. It's floating with people. I don't know what the temperature is in Spain. I know I had a friend that came from there said it can get extremely hot, as you would expect, and, you know, think of the amount of resources this consumes. How you ever send them back? Well, they can put measures in place to dissuade them. and that is, you know, you have to be a Spanish citizen before you can collect, I don't know, unemployment or benefits and things like that. Most of the people, honestly, that go over, they get straight into house, not straight in, there's waiting lists, but they are, they use up emergency housing, emergency this, emergency that. People say it doesn't affect your system, but then you end up waiting if you're a New Zealander and you're looking for government housing, for example, you would…