Post #2094898

2026-05-06 13:11 UTC

@tay @lazza @Vivaldi Surely there will be some people who use it. We can't eliminate them. But there is absolutely no place for it in our browsers, in software we use, etc. much less giving websites we visit backdoors to our data and interactions via some "AI API". Once the bubble finishes imploding (it's well along the way already), there will not be new gigantic models. The astronomical costs don't justify it. They don't even justify continuing to offer the existing ones at affordable prices. The existing public models you can run client-side will of course still exist but will be increastingly outdated. This will not be a complete wipe-out, but it will be close.

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@tay@tech.lgbt 2026-05-06 13:20

@dalias @lazza @Vivaldi > much less giving websites we visit backdoors to our data and interactions via some "AI API". I'm not entirely up to date on the Chrome AI APIs, but I was under the impression it's just stuff like a translation API, text summarisation, etc. If there is actually stuff that can leak information like such, I agree that is a genuine concern And regarding the implosion and lack of future development, good. I sincerely hope that happens sooner rather than later. But I feel that while we are still in the VC money burning phase, we should encourage development of on device models to redirect resources away from cloud models, so that, when the funding dries up, we will have something we can use on our own terms, just so we would have SOMETHING to come out of the VC funded wrecking ball instead of just the destruction

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