4.6 Opus was a huge jump from earlier models and the first that was actually useful for things like this from my experience (and 4.7 is significantly worse for some reason).
I have made many anti-LLM posts here and I remain pretty negative on them, but they have absolutely become useful. Part of the problem is the truth is really somewhere between the insane promises and the dismissals.
My problems are many fold though, from being propped up by insane subsidies, the massive power usage to the thing I most care about: taking more power from the masses. The more useful they get, the more power gets concentrated to those able to afford the data centers.
Computers used to be at least somewhat democratizing, sure there were some things like weather modeling that an ordinary person couldn’t do, but a random person on thier computer could put something together to change the world.
What happens when the breakthroughs are available only for the wealthiest? Regular folks can buy tokens at a reasonable price today, but running cutting edge models on consumer hardware isn’t really feasible. We’ve ceded too much control.
What democratization? The AI companies you prefer are creating a worse oligarchy in an economic and warmonger sense. This should disturb the people who don’t have their heads buried deep in the sand, or in the orifices of Satya Nadella or Dario Amodei.
That’s promoted by AI haters. The copyright people want to privatize human knowledge and charge rent for it. The latest lawsuit against Meta even includes Elsevier, ffs.
Then there’s all the busy-bodies who want everything surveilled “for the children”. Cause people might be chatting about self-harm, or generate nudes, or some other “harmful” content.
a random person on thier computer could put something together to change the world.
Yes. For example the random people who founded these AI start-ups.
Right now, the world of technology is uniquely malleable in a way it has not been since the dotcom crash. That’s what motivates most of the hate. It’s people who feel that they will lose out; eg the news media that already suffers from the rise of the internet.
Those issues are something that societies and democratically elected representatives should work out; not some billionaires. The problem seems to be that some people with a good thing going don’t want something that benefits them personally. They prefer no change over something that benefits everyone (but them relatively less).
General_Effort, it’s pretty clear that you are an AI evangelist, so you should know this already. But for people who are genuinely unfamiliar, they should look at the creepy words of Anthropic ally, Palantir.
Not only are they the company you decided to post about here, but they are the company people will often claim is the ethical one. OpenAI and X are worse.
You can’t just stick your head in the sand when you see inconvenient truths.
4.6 Opus was a huge jump from earlier models and the first that was actually useful for things like this from my experience (and 4.7 is significantly worse for some reason).
I have made many anti-LLM posts here and I remain pretty negative on them, but they have absolutely become useful. Part of the problem is the truth is really somewhere between the insane promises and the dismissals.
My problems are many fold though, from being propped up by insane subsidies, the massive power usage to the thing I most care about: taking more power from the masses. The more useful they get, the more power gets concentrated to those able to afford the data centers.
Computers used to be at least somewhat democratizing, sure there were some things like weather modeling that an ordinary person couldn’t do, but a random person on thier computer could put something together to change the world.
What happens when the breakthroughs are available only for the wealthiest? Regular folks can buy tokens at a reasonable price today, but running cutting edge models on consumer hardware isn’t really feasible. We’ve ceded too much control.
I prefer Gemma 4. Does what I need. Obviously there are quite a few problems. But democratization of technology is starting to catch up.
What democratization? The AI companies you prefer are creating a worse oligarchy in an economic and warmonger sense. This should disturb the people who don’t have their heads buried deep in the sand, or in the orifices of Satya Nadella or Dario Amodei.
That’s promoted by AI haters. The copyright people want to privatize human knowledge and charge rent for it. The latest lawsuit against Meta even includes Elsevier, ffs.
Then there’s all the busy-bodies who want everything surveilled “for the children”. Cause people might be chatting about self-harm, or generate nudes, or some other “harmful” content.
Yes. For example the random people who founded these AI start-ups.
Right now, the world of technology is uniquely malleable in a way it has not been since the dotcom crash. That’s what motivates most of the hate. It’s people who feel that they will lose out; eg the news media that already suffers from the rise of the internet.
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How so?
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Those issues are something that societies and democratically elected representatives should work out; not some billionaires. The problem seems to be that some people with a good thing going don’t want something that benefits them personally. They prefer no change over something that benefits everyone (but them relatively less).
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I agree. Now note how far away from AI this is.
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General_Effort, it’s pretty clear that you are an AI evangelist, so you should know this already. But for people who are genuinely unfamiliar, they should look at the creepy words of Anthropic ally, Palantir.
Palantir’s ‘manifesto’ has been described as an ‘AI-driven threat to humanity’s existence’ and ‘technofascism’.
Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race
Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
That’s 1 company, not AI as a whole, and its services are obviously much in demand by our democratically elected leaders.
Not only are they the company you decided to post about here, but they are the company people will often claim is the ethical one. OpenAI and X are worse.
You can’t just stick your head in the sand when you see inconvenient truths.