4d ago

skills for rent

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I run free local models...
- The output is still slop, no matter if it's local or oligarch-owned.
  
  LLMs provide as much information as a parrot repeating most heard words.
  It's a terrible, terrible "source" of information that will lead to an insane amount of misinformed people.
  
  You are assuming too much.
  
  If you think that's wrong - you're wrong.
  
  It might gather information from all those sources (with or without consent), but what it returns is no more credible than a story from a granny in your local market.
  ONLY if you prompt it to return links, and read the information in those links yourself, only then, you've read information from the source.
  It has been already proven that LLMs are bad at summarising - the only thing techbros have been pushing it for. It's bad at summarising, bad at coding, bad at math and fucking terrible at image making.
  There's a reason the output is called 'Slop'. And rightfully so.
  
  It's called Fuck_AI, not Fuck_Monopolization_of_AI.
  
  "Sir, we are100% reactionary, no room for nuance in these parts!"
  
  Remember when people said digital artists weren't artists, because they didn't use traditional mediums?
  
  Yeah, two completely similar things! The machine that allows ypu to draw without buying expensive art supplies constantly vs the "let's turn shitty ideas into full products for the sake of social media clout" machine.🤡
  
  Ya @Unlearned9545@lemmy.world local-free-open gonna eat some billion-$ corp lunch—this is exciting for everyone, almost
  Eugene you able to connect the Reality Check complaint screenshot to the thread for me?
  Also any issue with one volunteer contributor training a model on public domain code, and sharing with their friend who uses it free locally to generate a custom script? (Context to help can be disabled non-coder who wants an accessibility script.) Considering the contrast between that and the non-coder searching StackOverflow all day, and looking to understand what the volunteer & disabled friend did wrong in one scenario but not the other.
  Excuse the sympathetic scenario, just wanna make things easier. Not asking anyone to defend Sam Altman!
- Right?

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