PeerTube mirrors:
https://vuna.no/w/tJTv5oaKvVXimaPSpZzugW (technically, most views)
https://clip.place/w/fAC9RdWw85bZyR5ADDM3i8
https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/vnw5idKZNK2is7Sw9Caz6i

This was legitimately fascinating. It’s crazy that Bloomberg reported on the same issue and didn’t find anything. Their reporters are terrible at their jobs or were prevented from doing them properly. Either way Bloomberg looks inept or corrupt.

I've had it on loop (on a muted tab) for the past 2 days.

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I never even thought about data smuggling. China isn't allowed to buy Nvidia GPUs? Ok then China will have someone maintain the Nvidia servers in another country and remote into it to run their AI models.

Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer's Nexus.

This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it's not back up on Gamer's Nexus' page.

Norway, last week: Completely scammed: Thieves made off with "AI chips" worth several million kroner (googa translade)

Could only watch the first 10-15 mins, they've definitely upped the production value. I reckon I'll have to buy some merch from them to support them because this is good shit and want to see more.

Already watched it when it came out, I guess I'll play it in the background while I work, muted, to help the algorithm.

4:30 in and I'm hooked. Gotta save it for later.

Hell yeah! Make sure to download it for preservation reasons as well.

It was up in Odysee all this time.

They got mad, that's how you know it slegit. Literally better than any 5 star review.

Fuck Bloomberg. All my homies hate Bloomberg.

Really fun watch. I probably am more aware of this than most so most of the contextual information was "common sense" or "open secrets", but never really saw anyone put it that clearly or blatantly before. And the technical segments (building a frankenboard) were awesome.

Although one thing me and a few buddies keep wondering but are too afraid to ask legal about: Did Steve actually film himself committing a crime when he bought the card? Like, he as a US citizen is a party that can buy one of those and as long as he didn't give it to anyone else, it is no different than buying and shipping a card from a less than reputable source. But it also raises every single export control flag in my head.

Edit: OP corrected the link. Please support Gamer's Nexus.

This is a re-upload by a third party. Which is perfectly acceptable, but do note it's not back up on Gamer's Nexus' page.

My conclusion is that the US is getting what it wants out of the importation block regardless of smuggling or "fell of the assembly line".

Universities (China and the US) want a warranty on that hardware. They can't get a warranty on smuggled hardware. That's where you would have researchers building models. The GPUs they have are getting old and they don't have replacements lined up.

The other place to build models is corporations, who might choose to ignore the warranty issue, but they can't possibly get enough high end GPUs to actually do that. Not while using mules who can only bring in one or two at a time. Maybe they can find a way to smuggle things en masse, but they'd likely just make themselves a target to US trade authorities.

That leaves Chinese gamers as the only ones who want smuggled GPUs at all. US trade policy doesn't give a shit about them.

So yes, there's smuggling, Nvidia certainly knows about it, US trade authorities certainly know about it, but nobody has any reason to care.

Shit I just posted this without seeing your post. Deleting 🥲

FYI, the YouTube algorithm positively freaks out when you watch a video below 1x speed because of the increased watchtime.

Why isn't this on peerube?