Post #2094901

2026-05-06 13:25 UTC

@tay Regarding the second part, we DON'T WANT "something we can use on our own terms" from "AI". There is nothing useful to be had here. It's all malicious, every last bit of it. The only thing "high quality" local models would enable is massive automated spam, scam, and deception/disinformation campaigns without the perpetrators having to pay for it.

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@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-05-06 13:26

@tay We specifically WANT these awful things to depend on the subsidized massive data centers, so that when the bills come due and it all crashes, as much as possible is GONE.

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@tay@tech.lgbt 2026-05-06 13:40

@dalias I mean, I feel like we're past that point, so unless you EMP every hard drive with a .GGUF file on it, we will continue to see slop articles clogging up search results. Which is deeply frustrating but, given that I've found _some_ use from LLMs (admittedly not much, and wouldn't complain too much if they did all just vanish), I would like to keep those on my own terms But anyway, I think I've said as much as I care to for now, I thank you for being at least willing to hear what I have to say, but in all honesty I am overdue for some rest, and wouldn't mind doing something more productive. Maybe I could update musl et al on all my systems, I'm sure my horrible patching hygiene isn't doing your good work justice.

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