[Barrin92]

what's the point? The Chinese, Google and OpenAI are burning money and we get to use the service. Having AI providers locally barely creates any jobs, it's an easily substitutable service and it has (contrary to the claims by the AI crazies) very few national security implications.

Steel is a great example because we don't pollute our rivers with steel mills any more either. As Milton Friedman said, if someone wants to give you steel and you give them green sheets of paper, be thankful, nothing's easier to make than paper.

What are you losing, the bragging rights among nerds on the internet? Right now Americans are paying the energy bills, Sam Altman is paying for the compute, they make no money off it, and they're even publishing the models! So if push comes to shove, we can deploy them. But until then how is that not a great deal

[ForHackernews]

> The Chinese, Google and OpenAI are burning money and we get to use the service.

Exactly. Take what they spent a lot of R&D bucks developing and host it ourselves at the fraction of the cost.

The point is digital sovereignty. The same reason you keep data on your own hard drive instead of Google's cloud.

[enaaem]

I postulate that if AI models get better, they also become more fungible. If you want to rule the world, you should make dumb software that takes time to learn. The world economy pretty much runs on MS Excel.