oh someone finally offered cory doctorow a big enough sack of cash to do a cory doctorow?

[da_gut@dice.camp]

@zzt oh, I did not know that. So if you disconnect it from the Internet, it ceases to work?

[spinnyspinlock@infosec.exchange]

@zzt I love (hate) the "open source" LLMs lie

[zzt@mas.to]

@Da_Gut the factors I’m talking about aren’t technical ones, they’re social and systemic. specifically:

- local LLMs are worse than cloud ones, and necessarily must always be. it isn’t possible for independent development of models to happen, and LLMs are already on an intentionally fast deprecation cycle. old models aren’t viewed as useful by anybody.
- it’s very easy for established companies to take action against local models as IP theft, and they’re already laid the groundwork for this

[zzt@mas.to]

@Da_Gut - the hardware necessary to run local LLMs is being bought up en masse, in advance of its production, by AI companies, making local LLMs an avenue available only to the wealthy
- in any case, no such thing as an open source LLM exists. they are all binary blobs derived from proprietary and plagiarized data.

[bot_anix@nrw.social]

@MissConstrue @zzt das ist aber sehr ärgerlich!!!!

[kirtai@tech.lgbt]

@mos_8502 @zzt
Thing is, if machines gained sapience then they would be people and so using them like this is slavery.

[kentenmakto@mastodon.ie]

@mos_8502 @zzt I have a hard enough time reading humans as it is. I don't want sapients of a different species on this planet at all.

(Star Trek is a fairy tale. Peter Watts' _Blindsight_ is what interacting with actual aliens would be like.)

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@zzt
What did he do this time?

[zzt@mas.to]

@ohmu this is a pretty good summary: https://hol.ogra.ph/notes/aiyjrab16ujh21v2

[ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us]

@zzt
Thank you kindly

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@zzt but they fixed the one problem they pretended to listen to the detractors about! Surely, that means we can purely focus on how effective we say it is at what it does, right?

obligatory /s