jesus this is gross man

  • Anomalocaris@lemm.ee
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    21 hours ago

    can we agree that 90% of the problem with LLM are capitalism and not the actual technology?

    after all, the genie is out of the bottle. you can’t destroy them, there are open source models. even if you ban them, you’ll still have people running them locally.

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      21 hours ago

      can we agree that 90% of the problem with cigarettes are capitalism and not the actual smoking?

      after all, the genie is out of the bottle. you can’t destroy them, there are tobacco plants grown at home. even if you ban them, you’ll still have people hand-rolling cigarettes.

      it’s fucking weird how I only hear about open source LLMs when someone tries to make this exact point. I’d say it’s because the open source LLMs fucking suck, but that’d imply that the commercial ones don’t. none of this horseshit has a use case.

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      20 hours ago

      Frankly yes. In a better world art would not be commodified and the economic barriers that hinder commissioning of art from skilled human artists in our capitalist system would not exist, and thus generative AI recombining existing art would likely be much less problematic and harmful to both artists and audiences alike.

      But also that is not the world where we live, so fuck GenAI and its users and promoters lmao stay mad.