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I wish vegans and vegetarians would be a bit more willing to promote this viewpoint.

I agree. I think that sometimes people avoid vegan/vegetarian options due to negative perception drawn from some prominent activists in the community (not helped when rage-baiters get more views and coverage).

I honestly think I would have become vegan sooner if there were less ‘hardcore’ vegan activists and more empathetic role models.

I fully support people making the public aware of awful conditions in livestock farms and abattoirs (nonviolently), as well as those who encourage alternative options (e.g. nooch is delicious and I wish I knew about it before I became vegan).

The people that dump red dye/fake blood on people, or block streets, or vandalise businesses, aren’t doing the movement any favours IMO. The same with people who disparage others who are making more ethical choices, but not the ones they have made (e.g. consuming less meat instead of no meat in this case).

Attacking a person’s character doesn’t generally work; people just get defensive.

That is an unhelpful response. OP is talking about actions individuals can take and you provided a single word response with a link to overall climate change sources, most of which individuals have no control over (beyond voting).

“…for multi-step tasks”

I actually like AI overview, though I use DDG, not Google. It’s especially helpful when you just want a simple answer e.g. stuck on a level in a video game, wanting to know the major exports for a country, checking the release date for a movie/game, basic troubleshooting questions.

Website developers typically bloat simple questions like this with irrelevant rubbish to waste your time and keep you on their websites longer.

No. People will use children as tools to migrate. They already do to an extent, but this would exacerbate it significantly. People should have children because they want to raise a family, not to use them as a tool to bypass inconvenient red tape.

They release them under permissive licences so that anyone can do that.

Hugging Face being developer-facing is completely irrelevant considering the question you asked was whether I was aware of any companies doing anything like this.

Your concern that companies like Meta and Microsoft are too scared to let users retrain their models is also irrelevant considering both of these companies have already released models so that anyone can retrain or checkpoint merge them i.e. Llama by Meta and Phi by Microsoft.

It’s a cloned image, not unique per computer

Microsoft’s Copilot works off a base model, yes, but just an example that LLMs aren’t as CPU intensive as made out to be. Further automated finetuning isn’t out of the realm of possibility either and I fully expect Microsoft to do this in the future.

The intent isn’t for the LLM to respond for you, it’s just to interpret a message and offer suggestions on what a message means or rewrite it to be clear (while still displaying the original).

There are plenty of people and organisations doing stuff like this, there are plenty of examples on HuggingFace, though typically it’s to get an LLM to communicate in a specific manner (e.g. this one trained on Lovecraft’s works). People drastically overestimate the amount of compute time/resources training and running an LLM takes; do you think Microsoft could force their AI on every single Windows computer if it was as challenging as you imply? Also, you do not need to start from scratch. Get a model that’s already robust and developed and fine tune it with additional training data, or for a hack job, just merge a LoRA into the base model.

The intent, by the way, isn’t for the LLM to respond for you, it’s just to interpret a message and offer suggestions on what a message means or rewrite it to be clear (while still displaying the original).

A poorly designed tool will do that, yes. An effective tool would do the same thing a person could do, except much quicker, and with greater success.

An LLM could be trained on the way a specific person communicates over time, and can be designed to complete a forensic breakdown of misspelt words e.g. reviewing the positioning of words with nearby letters in the keyboard, or identifying words that have different spellings but may be similar phonetically.

Trying not to be too douchey here, but ironically, your message is actually a very good example of where this technology could be beneficial.

IT is ACTUALLY not EASY to read a MESSAGE when THE CASE randomly SWITCHES back AND forth.

I don’t use WhatsApp, but this immediately made me think of my dad who doesn’t use any punctuation and frequently skips and misspells words. His messages are often very difficult to interpret, through no fault of his own (dyslexia).

Having an LLM do this for me would help both him and me.

He won’t feel self conscious when I send a, “What you talkin’ about Willis?” message, and I won’t have to waste a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out what he was trying to say.

The posts on this thread are evidence that people don’t actually care about the policies; if there is an oompa loompa behind it, it must be bad.

Almost every move the current US administration has done to cut red tape has been utterly stupid. This one actually makes sense. Having a separate citizenship database for every state is just silly.

But… Then how will I get the poowater on my balls?

Oh. Is that how protests work? I am a non-driver who supports initiatives like making cities car-free, increasing public transport, improving cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure. Yet, I am now blocking this community because it’s clearly full of attention-seekers craving a power-trip.

This ‘protest’ makes me support the drivers, not the cyclists. I don’t understand how this silly idea came about that making people hate you somehow builds support for a cause.

‘Fire shoe’ encompasses both meanings satisfactorily.

Tree wool.

Okay, that is really cool. I think German wins here.

Does Dutch keep both forms?

I believe both Old English and Old High German kept both the compound word (hand shoe) and the singular word (e.g. glōf) before eventually choosing one and discarding the other. I’m curious if there are any Germanic languages that have kept both forms into the modern era.

But yeah, fireplace just sounds so much cooler…

Although… Why not… Fire shoe? Yeah, that’s even better.

Fire shoe it is. I’ll let Oxford know.