> At this point, I am coming around to the argument that governments should make their own local/national AI.

I think this is a terrible idea. How do current Chinese-built LLMs respond when asked about Tianamen Square? How would American-built LLMs response when asked about Israel/Palestine?

Oh it’s absolutely a terrible idea.

I can think of an infinite ways why this is bad.

The alternative is what we have now. I don’t think the current situation is worth leaving uncontested.

Seriously - we’re copying all the art, music, lit, data and converting it into subscription revenue for the biggest firms on the planet ?

Which are based in the US?

And the alternative is Chinese open models ? Really ? This is the future.

In that case the only other groups left to enter the fray are national governments.

Frankly, after seeing what I am in Asia, I suspect they are already planning to do that anyway.

If Wikipedia was the source for training data of the LLM then the answer would be quite horrible. There was a ring of Pro-Palestinian editors (possibly state sponsored) that were writing a lot of misinformation on that topic.

Check the pro-Israel ones too

Is there any? I thought Paliz/Woke actors were in complete control over wikipedia. That's why the talk about the alternatives.

I'm not surprised you thought that.