[hef19898]

Nah, China already sealed of their internet as did Russia and to a degree India. If we have, in the end, a dead US-centric internet, well, as soon as people start ignoring that it wpuldn't be a real loss to humankind. Until we reach that point so, we are in deep shit. And LLM spam and crap content being US centric is least of our problems.

[kolinko]

Did they really? Can’t we scrape chinese or russian internet just as well as western internet?

Honest question. I know they have firewalls, but these are one sided as far as I understand. No?

[mike_hearn]

Bandwidth in and out of the country is heavily throttled in both directions and packet filtering applies on both. It's very hard to crawl the Chinese internet from the west and it has always been that way. If you want to do it you have to do the crawl from inside China, and then you're open to having your datacenters raided and software stack stolen (this isn't a theoretical concern).