I think it’s at least way more ethical to use locally hosted open weight AI. Mostly because a lot of these models are usually fine tuned and distilled to run on a single GPU and that is the direction the technology needs to develop to be sustainable.

Obviously for most things it’s way more ethical to just not use AI or LLMs.

I think people should at least experiment with running local models on their own hardware. It really puts it into perspective how much compute they use. Like the power, speed, and performance ratios of different size LLM and how absurd anything involving generating video is. I have a pretty beefy gaming PC and it took it like 6 minutes to generate 10 seconds of 720p video. And then that time goes up exponentially past 10 seconds. Like 20 minutes for a 15 second video

Running on a small model is basically like playing a modern full sized video game. When I measure my PC with a power meter

And Frodo doesn’t know Legolas’ name

I have a new motorola razr.

Mainly I just think it is neat, but I do like the little screen on the outside. Ive actually noticed my screentime has decreased a lot. Its something about that extra step of opening it up and being able to handle little things on the small exterior screen.

I like how it fits in my pocket when folded compared to a normal phone

Another small thing is that I can set it up half folded to hold my flashlight while working or act as a camera tripod.

Battery is really good too. I’m not sure if it can just fit more battery or if the small exterior screen limits battery usage when closed, or both.

Yeah people on the right are lot more likely to overlook their disagreements as long as they can agree on a few things

I have a ton of unique 3d printed firearms. They are legal for me to make and own where I live, but I can’t legally sell them or give them away so they have just accumulated over the years haha

Company is still ran by people though

It’s pretty interesting article. I actually dropped my Chad GPT subscription a few years ago and switched a locally hosting my own Ollama server for like privacy concerns.

I’m still going to continue to use my locally hosted large language models but I don’t know, its interesting to know that chat gpt seems to not care about user data except for training or making money.

I thought it was interesting how the article said that if ChatGPT was a human it would have been charged with murder.

Obviously I don’t think ChatGPT is a human but it does raise questions about the kind of laws regarding LLM and the companies behind them.

Like at what point do AI companies have a responsibility to step in in these scenarios?

The game VR chat, is you have a decent computer. Doesn’t need to be a full on gaming PC and you don’t need a VR headset. I started playing on my basic laptop I used during college. It had 16g of ram, and I don’t remember the processor but it didn’t have a problem with VR chat, when it could really run Skyrim for example.

Really fun game to meet people all over the world. There’s a lot of people and kids goofing off on there too, but I’ve had a lot of genuine and nice convos and connections too, especially during the pandemic

I did something similar. Took one the the backseats out of my Prius and it’s perfect for road trips with just me and my dog. Tinted the windows and just put a sunshade up in the windshield went I sleep

This and always use a web browser and never the app

I know there are plenty of efficient single gpu models out there, but I still assume most people are using data centers for image generation.

Also there is just something off putting about the style of most AI generated images, audio, and videos for me.

I’ve seen very few instances of very specific and fine tuned LoRAs/workflows that I would consider art/acceptable use. But the majority is just wasted electricity, rage bait, misinformation, scams, and slop

Had something like this happen on my old ender 3. I replaced/upgraded the hotend and it went away

Might be penicillin on the lemons haha.

When life gives you lemons, make penicillin

We are all waves on a single ocean. It some ways it is silly to compare one wave to another because they are just a single body of water

I’m not fluent in second language or anything, but I think I have learned the most when immersed, like I visited the Philippines for a month and started to pick up some Tagalog. Or during two years of grad school, I had a lot of Nepali friends and slowly started to understand more Neplai words and phrases

They should force them to open source their models, datasets, and research

Yeah I too am a big supporter. There are already all sorts of open models on Hugging Face. The smaller fined tuned models are often better than the big models at the specific tasks they are trained for.

There’s just a big learning curve at how to start using the open weight models and LoRAs on Hugging Face for example

So weird that some concerts don’t allow cameras

At 25 I was pretty atheistic, but now at 29 I feel more agnostic or apatheistic. Can’t say for certain either way, but it’s probably not a good use of my time to fully commit one way or the other