Ok, but do you not see where this leads? This leads to RL on your data at the very least, which leads to the CCP having true SOTA models, which they will obviously stop making open once it benefits them just like OAI and Ant. Here we are now, with TFA model not open at all.

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Again, I am not pissed at you or anyone in your position. I get it. I am pissed at the Project 2025 type people who destroyed our institutions, and in the decades prior they destroyed our mutual trust in our own country. (With the help of foreign actors ffs)

2025 types declared us the enemy while they took over everything, and it turns out it goes both ways. BTW, I don't mean this in left/right partisan way. The 2025/authoritarian type people don't seem to be aware that they made even non-partisan people feel like they are now being tread upon. There is so much proof of this on HN, like this thread, and many others.

My thesis is that just like every other authoritarian scheme in the last hundred years, these people have not thought it through, and in the end will make their country less powerful. Would be arguably OK if there weren’t even bigger assholes ready to fill the vacuum.

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There are a lot of bad things you can say about China that gonna be true, but it's not well known for running scam call centers - quite opposite.

Authoritorian state with highly controlled internet and financial system isnt exactly a good place for running criminal enterprises.

There just 1.4 billions people in a country and many of them well educated and tech-savvy, so it obvious there just more scammers in total. But I doubt higher percent of population doing scams than average in the world.