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Post #1822749

2025-12-07 01:01 UTC

For those defending generative AI saying shit like “it’s just bad because evil AI companies. We need open source AI” How does open sourcing AI help with data centers destroying communities, poisoning more fresh water than 10000 people could drink, or the fact that it only exists to try to replace humans for profits of the already ultra wealthy? 🧵1/4

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  • @micahilbery@mstdn.social 2025-12-07 01:06

    How do you plan to train these things without theft? Do you honestly believe there’s enough people that would opt-in to using their data to train the torment nexus just because it’s open source? What problems do you think you are actually solving for humanity outside of shareholder profits? If reading/writing emails are is unimportant that you can’t be bothered, maybe they don’t need read/wrote at all. 🧵2/4

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  • @ddelemeny@mastodon.xyz 2025-12-07 04:21

    @micahilbery@mstdn.social you're missing the forest for the tree. Data centers are not necessary infrastructure. BOINC showed that of community-led distributed compute was somewhat achievable. Gen algorithms were not *made* to replace humans and solve paying wages. That's just the one nail capitalism is throwing *every* hammer at. They could power assistive tech (and already do to an extent) They could prompt people to seek benefits they are entitled to They could help with repairability of closed hardware

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  • @dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2025-12-07 07:43

    @micahilbery@mstdn.social Insert joke about Open Torment, the FLOSS equivalent of the Torment Nexus, built from the book “Don't Build The Torment Nexus”.

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  • @mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl 2025-12-07 11:37

    @micahilbery@mstdn.social ‘We need natural language processing technology without the push for using it fucking everywhere’ is not exactly ‘we just need to supply the artificial demand generated by the AI bubble with open source AI’

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