Post #4189527

2026-07-29 08:33 UTC

The other is Concrete Harm. Now, don't get me wrong. Supporting Anthropic, Microslop, Meta, and OpenAI produces concrete harms. I'm less clear on whether or not supporting Alibaba is producing concrete harms. Especially since it's actively harming those four. What I can say definitively is that running an open weights model locally provides zero material support to any of these companies. So, what externalities am I causing by using a Qwen 3.6 model on my MacBook? 18/

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@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space 2026-07-29 08:36

If there are externalities can I compensate for them? In my opinion, the #AntiAI crowd is actually doing the work for #Anthropic and I've wondered how much of the rhetoric is pushed by them. Anthropic's business model is to make everyone afraid of #LLM #technology in order to regulate their #monopoly. The biggest threat to humanity is that the technology is controlled by the top of the K-shaped economy. So, real AI education is fighting the megacorps. 19/

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@dahukanna@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 13:31

@AeonCypher@lgbtqia.space the externalities are not so visible in operational use of local-on-your-laptop open-weight models. It’s the open web being used for “pillage” without consent: - Code, opt out if you don’t want - https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack - Business & personal website servers going “ban(g/krupt)” under load of millions of scraper requests-https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/116976638741281226 No regard of sustainable use of limited environmental resources consumed during months of model training & operating cloud data centers, etc.

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