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LLMs have a lot of utility so China has the right idea to pursue them. They're also doing a lot more to mitigate the downsides than the US is
Not a fan of the technology at all, i know there are legitimate uses in science with specialized dsta sets, but the way LLM's seem to be implemented as an all emcompassing swiss knife and how they seem to be touted as replacing humans for cultural production those are two applications of the technology i particularly despise. Personally i will never consume any cultural product where the creative process wss parsed through an LLM, and i especially hate ai music. And i refuse to use Llm's for work.
As for data centers i feel expensive frontier models reach diminishing returns as they become larger, to the point in the future it will be more feasible for the people that use llm's to run sepcialized open source models locally. Not something i will ever do. But it sounds more logical than all mad infrastructure cost and environmental disaster US companies are planning.
I also believe this mad push for data center infrastructure obeys a logic of privatization and centralization of compute: make it so the users can't buy their own hardware so that they are forced to rent compute to the tech companies. Again China seems a light in the tunnel for this as their chip manufacturing industry might fill the hole left by western hyperscalers.