Distillation from Gemini models without permission violates Google's terms of service, and Google can block accounts that do this, or even take users to court
"American-led, democratic AI."
Omg turn left Reg
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Absolutely hilarious how US companies bet the farm on subscription based AI products, and now the whole business model is falling apart.
Genuinely. Consciously basing the ENTIRE so-called "Economy" on something that absolutely falls apart if someone goes "mine's better and free"...certainly a choice
then again, Linux has been battling uphill for a while.
Yeah, the big difference in uptake is really integration. People can see inidivudal working programs and see the value, but the moment it interacts with another (which they also use) it exponentially increases in perceived value. The fact that these slop toasters are integrated with Chrome or Outlook is what makes them sellable. So the free variants are going to have to find some way to beat that, to be even more integrateable and universal.... but I can't imagine the answer to that problem.
AIs are so fucking stupid. They're trying to make them do the things humans specifically are good at (general reasoning, adaptive thought, sussing out motives) while completely eliminating what computers are good at (absolute memory, reliability, repetition). We end up with a computer that sucks more at both while costing more, and we're told it's for efficiency's sake
haha... was gonna say, didn't DeepSeek do that already?
allegedly 🤣