cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/6888554
Inspired by: “UK and France abandon plans to recognise Palestinian state at conference”
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/6888554
Inspired by: “UK and France abandon plans to recognise Palestinian state at conference”
Firstly, there aren’t Chinese/Russian bots on Lemmy, and secondly, you’re wildly underestimating China’s current standing and its velocity in machine learning & AI.
Never said there were, wasn’t a part of my original argument. I personally disagree with you and think that’s a naive take, but even if I didn’t, it doesn’t mean that there definitely aren’t such botnets active on every major social media platform; massively influencing public opinion and thus discourse on Lemmy and all other social media, even if indirectly. If you’re willing to object to the mere existence of large state-run bot farms at this point in 2025 then I have a bridge to sell you.
This is a more fair argument but I don’t think it’s particularly relevant.
Fact of the matter is that the large majority of the world’s computer and internet infrastructure is owned and maintained by American interests. If you don’t understand how that matters in this context then I think you are egregiously uninformed regarding machine learning and how this burgeoning sector of the economy actually works. Meaning, you probably shouldn’t be making such declarative statements on your opinion about it if that is the case.
China is the only other nation on Earth that might have a fighting chance against the US in an AI arms race, but, they’re still massively disadvantaged from an empirical point of view. Their only advantage over Americans is that the Chinese youth are all massively supportive of AI and AI infrastructure. China doesn’t have a large anti-AI movement due to a lot of factors but it mostly seems that in a collectivized culture there are less premonitions over things like genAI being “theft,” because ideas like the traditional Western conception of intellectual property are not common place. Whether or not this will be enough to overcome the sheer infrastructure advantage Americans have is yet to be seen. We’ll have to see how these tariffs, manufacturing, new infrastructure, and other facets of the economy actually shake out in these coming years. This stuff doesn’t exist in a vacuum, decisions made today are going to determine who “wins” tomorrow. China is certainly capable of building the infrastructure but there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the global economy, especially when it comes to things like fabs. Only time will tell.