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Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by benterix on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:19AM (#48976751)
> human rights and all that rubbish

While I understand your point, please think a bit how you formulated the sentence above.

Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by simondotau on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:44AM (#48978812)
I almost choked on my tea when I read that. I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed. A shocking turn of phrase, and one that IMHO catastrophically devalues the nominally valid argument underlying that post.
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by bigyabai on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:13PM (#48980878)
To be fair, both of America's frontier labs that fearmongered safety and human rights folded immediately during wartime.

It's pretty glaringly obvious that "safety" research is a complete sham that is consistently ignored at every point in AI's development.

Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by computerphage on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:23PM (#48981016)
What do you mean by "folded during wartime"? When did wartime start, and who folded?
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by platinumrad on Monday July 20, 2026 @01:09PM (#48981648)
Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by bigyabai on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:32PM (#48981139)
Anthropic and OpenAI both immediately reneged their safety/wartime limits when the feds confronted and threatened them.

Now their technologies are being used in a brushfire war half the world over.

Re:Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon by wvlia5 on Monday July 20, 2026 @09:50AM (#48978884)
I think it's well formulated.