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DeepSeek just proved Lina Khan right
Khan warned that enabling protectionism for tech monopolies wouldn’t just hurt all of us, it would hurt them too. Now they’re getting wiped out.
Lina Khan, as chair of the Federal Trade Commission under former President Joe Biden, became a folk hero as she warned that greed and consolidation weren’t just harming consumers and workers, but that the sclerotic companies themselves would eventually suffer from the lack of competition. This has fundamentally changed the economics and politics of the rapidly emerging AI industry, which has so far been led by an oligopoly of American tech companies trying to position Large Language Models (LLMs) as the defining technological breakthrough of this century, and themselves as the custodians of its secret sauce. A: OpenAI became the first American company to demonstrate that if you take a snapshot of the whole known internet and all digitized books in existence without worrying too much about copyright law, you can create a model so good that its output would be almost indistinguishable from that of a DC bureaucrat with mediocre intelligence.
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