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Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm
(euobserver.com)
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There is nothing stopping the EU from going the DeepSeek route and just stealing the finished LLM's from American companies. But the truth is that the EU shouldn't want to have all these data centers training generative models. The us is already dedicating 4% of our electricity production to them, with people in states along the Great Lakes and Eastern seaboard seeing massive increases in their electric bills to pay for them (~30% for me in Ohio, ~75% for my brother in Virginia). I can understand if you are a technocratic neoliberal in the EU parliament that is taking bribes from tech firms why you would want this, but for anyone paying attention, rhe promises tech companies are making to burn hundreds billions of euros while gutting privacy, 🔏IP, and consumer protections at the top of the bubble makes no sense.
Deepseek was trained from scratch.
That aside, you're basically describing the second option I presented; letting everyone else do the AI thing instead.
DeepSeek is it's own model, designed and trained from ground up. It's a novel architecture even. Impressive work.
It's not a 'stolen from the US' model.
There does appear to be something special going on in the EU in that we can't seem to participate on a technological level since the 80s. Making the block industrially irrelevant, which has had grave geopolitical consequences already.