Nothing, but the article is about American AI, so using Chinese models by American companies can be risky. And it's risky for the Chinese to use American models.
So every country or block needs to run their own models to avoid opening a security hole for other countries.
Are open weights models secure? E.g. if a Chinese model is run by an American provider then can it still do bad things, like inserting backdoors into generated code or accessing external URLs (if browsing is enabled) to send info to them?
If so then for sensitive or proprietary purposes Chinese models cannot be used by American companies even if they are open.
There should be at least some correlation. When building the model they give more weight to some pages (e.g. Wikipedia) which have bigger trust (pagerank?). And when they provide links in answers, those matches are listed first which have better pagerank for the query.
So if it sources something in Wikipedia, it is more likely to provide Wikipedia as a trusted source for it.
The problem is when an answer is hallucinated, false, it may provide a source for it which contains the invalid info.
Is his code maintainable, though? Or is it just a pile of code which happens to work? What if he wants to change something? Does he generate again the whole thing from scratch? Or does he tell Claude to make the changes and doesn't even know when something breaks when a new thing is added? (Assuming the software is complex, having multiple non trivial features.)
The strength of the sources are not a question of quantity. A hundred obscure blog post have not the same strength as one wikipedia link, because the latter is more trustworthy. There could be some indication beside the info showing the strength of the sources (how many major trustworthy sources support it, etc.).
Was it inability or simply calculation? He made a livelihood out of making up stories about ancient aliens. He was financially motivated to keep telling his stories.
> Content can’t be free if you want it to be of any quality.
There are lots smaller local websites which can produce useful local content because of ad support. Those may not have enough subscribers to continue behind a paywall.
> Luckily, there's tons of information on the web provided not by commercial entities but by volunteers
The question is: is there content which is useful, but not provided by volunteers? We see more and more content behind paywalls, and it is a loss for many people who can't pay, because they won't be able to access the same content for free supported by ads.
So the result is poor people are going to lose access to certain contents, while well to do people will still have access.
" it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine "
Most people won't bother with buying powerful hardware for this, they will keep using SAAS solutions, so Anthropic can be in trouble if cheaper SAAS solutions come out.
> but unless you're deeply, deeply into repetitive religious tracts of 600 years ago, most of the collection is more of a curiosity than a valuable resource to modern scholars.
It's an abbey, so they are probably into religious tracts and it has cultural and sentimental value to them. E.g. if it has a Bible from the 13th century then it's worth preserving even if it's just the usual stuff.
Keybindings are the least interesting part of emacs. I modify the default keybindings heavily, because I find them uncomfortable.
Emacs's strength is being a portable programming platform which once you learned it allows you to very quickly create mini applications which help with everyday tasks.
Programming a VS Code extension is pretty cumbersome compared to creating a quick Emacs extension.
> I saw some shady third-party tool that scrapes the data, but it's against the Terms of Service and I don't want to worry about being banned from my entire Google ecosystem.
I'm pretty sure Google Terms prohibits using data from its Maps API otherwise than in connection with displaying/using a Google Maps service, but maybe they won't go after this, because it's not much data.
So every country or block needs to run their own models to avoid opening a security hole for other countries.