Bad title. An entire army division (10,000 to 20,000) surrendering would be a spectacular event. Turns out the article is talking about "some (~180) soldiers from a division", which is totally not the same thing.
3200 images is 0.001% of the dataset in question, obviously sucked in by mistake. The problematic images ought to be removed from the dataset, but this does not "contaminate" models trained on the dataset in any plausible way.
These sanctions are marketed as being aimed at military applications, but the dirty little secret is that high-end semiconductors are irrelevant for military tech, which overwhelmingly uses previous-gen semiconductor tech.
Let's not nickel-and-dime the green transition. Nuclear energy has a role to play, and so do renewables. The most urgent thing now is to get as much electricity generation off fossil fuels as possible. Building nuclear power plants is an important part of this, especially in countries like China and India which would otherwise default to burning coal.
They don't have to worry, because the Buy American provisions in recent legislation (passed under both Trump and Biden) protects them from competition by more fuel efficient foreign competitors.
Nuclear fusion isn't the solution to the climate crisis. It's decades away, if it ever happens; the climate crisis is something we're having to tackle now.
Strange that they don't just use an open weights model; there are several now that surpass ChatGPT 3.5, which is probably good enough for what they need.
By the time it appears, it will have been "on" for some nonzero duration before you switch it off, so I guess they could already have irreversibly vacuumed up your existing data...
More to the point, it's good that there exists an alternative to the ARM+Qualcomm platform, for commerical as well as technological competition. Natsec-based sledgehammer measures probably aren't an efficient way to achieve this, but oh well.
The Federation's ban on AI and GE also has tinges of authoritarianism that run counter to the liberal ideal it's supposed to represent. Say some planet in the Federation takes a different view of these issues, and wants to create a race of super-Datas and give them equal rights, are we expected to believe that the rest of the Federation will show up to bust down their doors, like some kind of space-DEA?
It's in bad taste, sure. But if the end result is all important, why worry about the taste? As Winston Churchill said, "If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons." Moreover, the Rs are asking for just increasing funding for something Biden says he agrees with, border security; it's not like they are asking to dismantle Obamacare or something like that.
This is military spending, so two pebbles probably costs more like $76.