Saw Wendell do this on the latest GN video and for some reason just knew it needed to be a thing.
Wendell is such a nice dude,
That face when you are fighting for consumer rights but you are obsessed with AI.
I feel like wendell has one of the more balanced/pragmatic takes on the tech, and at the least he’s a huge proponent of self hosted models instead of paying the big providers.
Don’t forget self hosted models are made from the same stolen data, made in the same data centers, and are even more unreliable. They are just as bad.
In my opinion they are not just as bad. I’ve found small local models do a very good job of solving various small problems, while using minimal energy. At worst they’re just regular bad. If you think mass data collection without consent to do stuff is a problem then its time to stop using just about any internet product with recommendations like YouTube or search engines as they all track data and scrape websites. There’s always a line and I feel the ongoing bad actors that are AI companies that have growth at any cost and already made local models are wildly different in the evil scale.
While using minimal energy to run, but not minimal energy to make.
I like to think of it like solar panels. Sure at first it takes a lot to make, but over time it evens out. I was pretty clear local AI is still morally grey at best, but its a real solution to some problems, an I would argue its better to have local control and use small energy efficient models to do assisting tasks than let the open AI’s of the world decide for us.
Selfhost Apertus open source model then.
Great, so we get a ethical shitty piece of tech.
Oof
The cat is out of the bag and one of the ways to fight for our rights is by owning as much of the tech as possible. Deprive the big AI firms from the revenue they expect for the services they sell. Make them mid-enough-to-fail. If we let them make the money they expect to make we can’t regulate them out of our lives without a major socioeconomic collapse like the great depression.
As he described it, the Terminator is coming whether we like it or not so we need a Summer Glau.
… Damnit that works on me
It is kind of unfortunate that he needs AI to anything security related
Oh shit I forgot about that
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“Whoopsy daisy”
Whoopsy doodle!
Streets ahead
That is so fetch.
