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> Why would someone in China not select Claude? Because Anthropic doesn't provide services in China? See https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries https://
by criemen 10mo ago
> Why would someone in China not select Claude?
Because Anthropic doesn't provide services in China? See https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries https://www.anthropic.com/supported-countries
- dboreham 10mo agoCan confirm Claude doesn't even work in Hong Kong. That said I fired up my VPN and...then it did work.
- 0xWTF 10mo agoYeah, I love folks who worry about China having access to models and GPUs. I mean, friend, they have 1.3B people. They could put a crack AI team in every country in the world, tomorrow. But yes, instead, it's far cheaper to let each of those AI teams VPN to any country, all the time.
- glenneroo 10mo agoIf they actually cared, they would just block VPNs. Valve does this when you try to create an account.
- fluoridation 10mo agoIf we're talking about state funding, that's not a problem. You just send a national to live in a residential area and then a team can proxy through that connection.
- puremachinery 10mo agoCommercial VPNs are relatively easy to block, because they use known IP ranges that companies can blacklist. But it's trivial to set up a private VPN with unique IPs such that VPN blocking becomes much less straightforward and much more resource intensive, for example by using traffic pattern analysis or behavioral fingerprinting.
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- xadhominemx 10mo agoNot really a relevant issue or concern for a nation state backed hack…
- BobbyJo 10mo agoOr even a regular guy for that matter... VPNs exist.