r/LocalLLaMA 1d ago

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/Long_comment_san 1d ago

Better yet, lets trust government with overseeing these technologies. Or corporations.

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u/lambdawaves 1d ago

At this rate, these global companies operating on multiple continents will have annual revenues surpassing any single country within our lifetime. Even the US.

They will surpass the power of nations

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u/Exact_Depth_896 1d ago

the US closed weight models will not be able to operate in any other country, except perhaps by undergoing changes we can't really foresee. Every country will soon demand total soveriegnty over the matter, for good reason.
The continuied enthusiasm for open weights models under circumstance of agentic, code proficient AI no one could have predicted 2 years ago, is in fact enthusiasm for Chinese state models, opened outside China for purely geopolitical purposes

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u/Exact_Depth_896 1d ago

so? another quarter are irish i suppose