People would hate LLMs and be a lot less afraid of them if big fucking companies weren't trying to consume the entire Internet and every book into their models for dubious benefit, and they were in full control of the individual. Like OpenAI and Anthropic just should not exist. Neither should Meta, etc.

They're not as scary as they seem. What is scary is what fascists are doing with it.

Technology should be for everyone, not for the elite, and definitely not governed by the elite, but by the users of the technology.

If it was something the commons ran locally on GPUs, or "I know a guy" at the minimum, nstead of being "fash tech" it'd be "interesting tool." It shouldn't be something you're forced to use either.

LLMs are already something you can run locally, but the well is so poisoned, few people experimenting with them locally (like myself) feel comfortable talking about it. I talk about it anyway because frankly, if you are unable to use your brain and consider I'm using something for research that is under my complete control, not under the control of a fascist, I don't know what to tell you. I don't have time for anarcho-amish attitudes towards tech. Although that insults the Amish because they use tech to serve their community, and the latest line of thought just wants us to return to some arbitrary period where they believed things were somehow better (they weren't, but it was easier to believe that).

Like none of what I am doing has anything to do with pulping books, whatever shit OpenAI or Anthropic are doing, making slop, etc.

I'm just experimenting with like bulk data processing and things like that.

(I want to use a model to process a ton of meteorological data and identify trends that would be difficult to see by hand, right now)

@Elizafox increasingly i feel that the problem isn’t LLM, the problem is how we don’t own our hardware (and by “we” i mean “the average consumer”), don’t own our software, don’t even own our own data and personal information, and how everything we do is on Someone’s Server Farm and how we afforded convenience by selling out any possibilities of not relying on a central tech overlord. from the grounds up we (the average consumer) sold off our rights to own what we use, little by little, over the period of time i call “when i was growing up”, and now escape is split between “another eventually shit business because nothing changed” and “ever so slightly too inconvenient to convince the masses”. and that that’s the thing we need to tackle, because when the bubble bursts we’re still on their servers

@twinkle EXACTLY. That has always been the problem.