The stock market “value” hype of various american “giants” related to so-called AI has just intensified (across most of the planet) enthusiasm for the chinese deepseek, you know. Stock market “value” is, of course, a euphemism for the “money begets money” bubble. Consequently, one might assume that the hype was just another episode of classic intra-capitalist, corporate competition—and that’s it.
Not exactly!
The american vice president JD Vance, much more composed than his president, appeared at the “AI summit” in Paris (on February 11) to put things in their place! The 50 billion dollars that the new administration has promised to these “giants” (of Silicon Valley) is too much to be lost simply and only because a chinese model appeared that is just as good, much much cheaper and, moreover, open source! Thus Vance, as diplomatically as possible:
a) warned our “international friends” not to dare bypass the overpriced american versions of AI, preferring others…
β) warned the same “international friends” not to dare impose restrictions and regulatory frameworks on american AI companies (Google is already collaborating with the american military on the matter…), because this would be considered an aggressive act against the US and would be a “terrifying mistake” (a direct warning to european ideas about “regulation”)…
γ) warned that Washington will impose strict prohibitions on access to any component of american AI – which means that global piracy/theft of data from anywhere on which “complex algorithms work” is now considered… “american conquest”…
And, finally:
d) warned the “international friends” that they will need large amounts of energy to use (american) AI, and better abandon the thought that they won’t buy american hydrocarbons…
In short: we’re coming to conquer you, so don’t dare resist!
Perhaps (we say perhaps) after all this, those who turn to ChatGPT to ask this and that should resort to the old, “traditional” media?