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It looks like people value cheap stuff a lot more than domestic production. When they see a deal, they light up like an Xmas tree. It's unclear if the goal is to raise prices. It is the goal in the case of blitzscaling by companies like Uber. It doesn't seem to work well. Consumers stop buying once the prices go up.
If you actually read the sources (some of which seem to be hallucinated), you see that many other countries also provide subsidies. Anything that's capital intensive requires government support. All heavy industries are centrally planned, and are capitalistic.
Reverse engineering usually means understanding how something works. In the case of Claude, it's well understood at this point. It's mostly done by having good data (part of which Anthropic "stole" from books), then there's fine tuning techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback. Distillation is not reverse engineering, it is a cheaper way to get high quality training data. Claude outputs are not covered by the copyright law, since they're not created by a human as you can find in the Section 306.
https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-authorship.pdf
None of that matters much, since consumers aren't interested in LLMs. They'll pay $70 for a game, or spend hundreds on lootbox gambling, but only 3% care enough to give $20/mo to OpenAI. It is rather sad that LLMs are now considered the pinnacle of technology, and those kinda pointless debates take place. There's nothing I can buy today that I couldn't 15 years ago. On paper, the specs go up, but the UX is the same. The industrialists can't figure out novel gadgets like 3D monitors and VR. I don't care if they cheat, stab each other in the back, eat babies, as long as they deliver a gadget that's exciting enough for people to camp in front of stores again.
If you actually read the sources (some of which seem to be hallucinated), you see that many other countries also provide subsidies. Anything that's capital intensive requires government support. All heavy industries are centrally planned, and are capitalistic.
Reverse engineering usually means understanding how something works. In the case of Claude, it's well understood at this point. It's mostly done by having good data (part of which Anthropic "stole" from books), then there's fine tuning techniques like reinforcement learning from human feedback. Distillation is not reverse engineering, it is a cheaper way to get high quality training data. Claude outputs are not covered by the copyright law, since they're not created by a human as you can find in the Section 306.
https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-authorship.pdf
None of that matters much, since consumers aren't interested in LLMs. They'll pay $70 for a game, or spend hundreds on lootbox gambling, but only 3% care enough to give $20/mo to OpenAI. It is rather sad that LLMs are now considered the pinnacle of technology, and those kinda pointless debates take place. There's nothing I can buy today that I couldn't 15 years ago. On paper, the specs go up, but the UX is the same. The industrialists can't figure out novel gadgets like 3D monitors and VR. I don't care if they cheat, stab each other in the back, eat babies, as long as they deliver a gadget that's exciting enough for people to camp in front of stores again.