2 Trillion dollars in U.S. Stock market cap erased in a day by DeepSeek, which was released only a day after the US announced a 500 billion dollar investment in AI.

DeepSeek only invested 5.6 million dollars in computing power.

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[–] underisk@hexbear.net 73 points 3 days ago (2 children)

“Easy to do when you steal”, is pretty fucking rich coming from someone defending US tech companies.

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 52 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Also reveals that le epic science redditors don't actually care about science and human advancement. Everything is "stolen" in science, in that it builds on something someone else developed before you. Technological advancements have been getting "stolen" (sometimes more literally, other times more "ethically" or legitimately) since we were knapping rocks.

Newton's original physics and calculus methods SUCK compared to modern physics (specifically "classical") and calculus methods, because we've had like 300 years to improve it. But you know redditors/westerners would be first to say Einstein stole from Westerners if he were East Asian.

Also goes to show that the whole modern techbro "open source" knowledge thing isn't out of principle. Its to outsource labor whenever the labor doesn't produce an immediate value. Techbros should be happy the Chinese devs made it open source, because THEY CAN USE IT TOO. But nope, because they can't solely profit off it, they're mad.

[–] Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br 43 points 3 days ago

They really do apply different rules to AES. China is expected to reinvent mathematics to prove 1 + 1 = 2 or else it is stealing Western research

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago

Even during my short-lived time as a cs student there was a saying:

“Good programmers write good code. Great programmers steal great code!” Capitalism’s logic is incompatible with the nature of knowledge itself. There’s so much inefficiency because people want to sit on and do nothing with their IPs or knowledge.

Imagine if even your local community college could have the information to teach Harvard level classes at a fraction of the price?

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

"If I have seen further, it is by stealing from the shoulders of giants"

-Isaac Newton or something

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also pretty fucking rich coming from people who have never not used the Arabic numeral system

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago

If you aren't stealing, you're doing it wrong