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Big US companies who have troves of user data usually have pretty strict policies about not just sticking it all through arbitrary ML pipelines for user privacy reasons.

Small US companies don't have access to enough data.

Companies in China have both lots of user data (1B+ internet users), and no privacy concerns about running ML experiments on that data (and observing user behaviour till they find success).

Hence, China will win the next wave of ML-powered social apps.




Yeah, I have seen firsthand how paranoid big US companies are about doing anything with personal data specially media which is a good thing for users. This really slows down even simple analysis where you were looking at even a Yes/No output and makes some features impossible/hard.

But they are competing with companies now which don't have the same ideological issues.


Free trade doesn't work between countries with different value systems, the values will be exploited as a weakness. Same applies with labor and environmental standards.


This is not even remotely true, I once worked at a team in a company which aggresively run user segregation and send marketing emails based on it, then they collect click data to curate more effective emails




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