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I mean good-ish in the lesser-evil type of thing. I don’t expect any of those to be 100% ethical but there are some that are a lot worse than others
Ethics are subjective. "Good-ish" to you may mean you're fine if its trained on copyrighted works as long as it wasn't done with electricity from diesel generators belching exhaust into the local Memphis atmosphere (I'm looking at you Grok). Llama doesn't do the diesel generator thing, but its a product of Facebook corporation. So is that "good-ish" to you or not? I don't know. That's up to you.
It may not be fast, but your i3 laptop with 12GB of system RAM can absolutely run a local LLM. This is where that "performance/accuracy" question I raised comes in. It won't be very fast, and you won't be able to run the most common large models like GPT-5 etc. However, if your needs are light, light models exist. Give this a read
Executive Branch's tariff plan gets around the Congressional spending controls. I'm pretty sure those funds from tariffs are income that doesn't come from taxpayer budgets that Congress controls/approves.
Depends on your definition of "good-ish". Do you mean:
- performance/accuracy?
- ethical origin?
- ethical ongoing operation?
- privacy/future data harvesting concerns?
Running one locally on your own hardware would likely reach "good-ish" with some sacrifices against performance/accuracy (unless you've got a lot of expensive hardware to run very large models). As far as ethical origins, there are few small models trained on public domain/nonstolen content, but their functions are far more limited.
Someone see if "Micros|op" (with the pipe character) or "MicrosIop" (with a capital letter i) is also blocked.
They were not a thing like they are today
I disagree with your statement.
Do I need to point to obvious examples such as the US Declaration of Independence in 1776?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness"
And human rights have always been a thing only respected by democracies. But nowhere as much as in EU where it is a requirement.
Even ancient Rome had a number of things legally protected that we call "human rights" today. I think you're conveniently cherry picking conditions and a time to make your statement true ignoring history. You're welcome to do that, but I believe that's intellectually dishonest. You're free to your opinion and your position though, so I'll leave you to it. Thank you for conversing up to now. I hope you have a great day.
I'm very very confused. You...don't think the concept of human rights existed before 1939 (or 1945)?
Geopolitically you're cherry picking from a time when nations of the EU are not as powerful globally. When Germany was powerful, look how they treated the Poles. When Belgium was powerful look at it treated the people of Central Africa (Congo). Spain, at the height of its power, treated the Aztec and other nations in the Caribbean with zero respect.
also because to be in EU it is a requirement to observe human rights. Disrespecting the rights of people even if they aren’t of your own nationality, is contrary to democratic values.
That is part of the diplomatic veneer. Yes, its an ideal, but it will be discarded when geopolitically necessary. How many boats of migrants have drowned off the coast of Italy or Greece? Are diplomats and citizens of Israel still allowed free movement in the EU with its treatment of those in Gaza?
Keep in mind, I'm not criticizing the EU. I recognize the really ugly realities that come with geopolitics and the choices that national leaders make to serve the interests of their citizens, even with it conflicts with their own ideals.
You may be thinking China and Russia are just as bad or maybe even worse, but that isn’t the pattern you should be looking at, you should compare with other democracies, and especially countries that have better democracy than USA.
Comparing "degrees of disrespect" is ignoring geopolitical realities. If you want to have a conversation about ideals humanity should adopt we will likely agree on most of the points of the discussion, but understand national leaders will (when push comes to shove) ignore all of it and do what they think is best for their nation no matter the cost to other nations.
Also, none of this is a defense of the actions of China, Russia, or the USA. Its a recognition that powerful nations do these things when it serves their interests.
Nah that’s Biden’s fault too. But Trump is so much greater than Biden as well.
How are they trying spin that to make it make sense? Biden was a regular private citizen when the 2020 election took place. He didn't even hold any political office at the time. One could even have called Biden and "unemployed old man" at the time the election had taken place.
Rape as a method of power is a tiny tiny tiny part/tool of geopolitics at the nation state level. Almost too small mention. The same original statement is the rationale for colonization of the Carrebean/Americas/Africa by European powers in the 15th century and beyond as just an example.
Trump wants his fuckin name all over everything
There's a fantastic new IRS approved tax advantaged retirement savings account for newborn (and otherwise young) children. The asshole named it after himself and even called the tax form 4547. I'm considering skipping using it simply because of his name attached to it, but trump will be long gone when children owing these accounts finally put them to use, so I'll likely bite the bullet and use them anyway.
Trump wants his fuckin name all over everything
Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election
So the narrative they're going with is that China interfered with the election while trump in charge, and trump was powerless to detect or stop it, but that 4 years later President Biden was able to execute free, fair, and accurate elections?
They're admitting he's a loser and couldn't do the job?
USA has absolutely zero respect for the rights of people in or from other countries.
Your statement isn't wrong, but you could substitute any powerful nation in the place of "USA" today or throughout history and the statement would be correct too. Geopolitics is really really ugly if you peal back the thin veneers of soft power and diplomacy on top.
I'm really happy to hear this news! You had no obligation to share it, but I thank you for doing so.
The sun is shining just a little bit brighter today.
That walking stick
You mean his antifa woke vegan truncheon? /s
If you play with the parameters you can make all kinds of things happen, but all of those things are still driven by the existing information it already has or can find. It can mash things together in random new ways, but it will always work with components that already exist.
Or purely randomness, but the spirit of your point is sound. And if it is randomness it may be unique output, but the utility of that result may be zero.
There is no awareness of context or meaning that would allow it to make intelligent choices about what it mashes together. That will always be driven by the patterns it already knows, positively or negatively.
100% AGREE. LLMs are not "thinking". LLMs are NOT the HAL 9000 from the movie 2001: A space odyssey
It’s like doing chemistry by picking random bottles from the shelf and dumping them into a beaker to see what happens. You could make an amazing discovery that way, but the chances of it happening are very, very low. And even if it does happen, there’s an excellent chance that you won’t recognize it.
100% AGREE.
I’m in favor of using LLMs for tasks that involve large-scale data analysis. They can be quite helpful, as long as the user understands their limitations and performs due diligence to validate the results.
Unfortunately what we are mostly seeing are cases where LLMs are used to generate boilerplate text or code that is assembled from a vast collection of material that someone who actually knew what they were doing had previously created. That kind of reuse is not inherently bad, but it should not be confused with what competent writers or coders do. And if LLMs really do take over a lot of routine daily tasks from people, the pool of approaches to those tasks will stagnate, and eventually degenerate, as LLMs become the primary sources of each others’ solutions.
100% agree. The degeneration is already occurring because bad LLM output is being fed back in as authoritative training data resulting in confidently wrong answers being presented as truth. Critical thinking seems to have become an endangered species in the last 20 years and I'm really worried that people are trusting LLM chatbots completely and never challenging the things they output but instead accepting them as fact (and acting on those wrong things!).
LLMs may very well change the world, but not it in the ways most people expect. Companies that have invested heavily in them are pushing them as the solutions to the wrong problems.
I think we have some of the pieces today that will make AI in general more trustworthy in the future. Grounding can go part way to making today's LLMs more trustworthy. If an LLM claims something as fact, it should be able to produce the citation that supports it (outside of LLM output). That source can then be evaluated critically. Today's grounding doesn't go far enough though. An LLM today will say "I got that from HERE" and simply give a document. It won't show the page or line of text and supporting arguments that would justify its arrival at its stated output. It can't do these things today because I just described reasoning which is something an LLM is NOT capable of. So we wait for true AGI instead.
LLMs are not capable of creating anything, including code. They are enormous word-matching search engines that try to find and piece together the closest existing examples of what is being requested. If what you’re looking for is reasonably common, that may be useful.
Just for common understanding, you're making blanket statements about LLMs as though those statements apply to all LLMs. You're not wrong if you're generally speaking of the LLM models deployed for retail consumption like, as an example, ChatGPT. None of what I'm saying here is a defense about how these giant companies are using LLMs today. I'm just posting from a Data Science point of view on the technology itself.
However, if you're talking about the LLM technology, as in a Data Science view, your statements may not apply. The common hyperparameters for LLMs are to choose the most likely matches for the next token (like the ChatGPT example), but there's nothing about the technology that requires that. In fact, you can set a model to specifically exclude the top result, or even choose the least likely result. What comes out when you set these hyperparameters is truly strange and looks like absolute garbage, but it is unique. The result is something that likely hasn't existed before. I'm not saying this is a useful exercise. Its the most extreme version to illustrate the point. There's also the "temperature" hyperparamter which introduces straight up randomness. If you crank this up, the model will start making selections with very wide weights resulting in pretty wild (and potentially useless) results.
What many Data Scientists trying to make LLMs generate something truly new and unique is to balance these settings so that new useful combinations come out without it being absolute useless garbage.
while at the same time, ignoring Windows telemetry,
You're posting this statement on Lemmy? There is a dispropotionatly high population of Linux and OSX users here. Most of those here ignoring Windows telemetry aren't running Windows.
It also has a good use of being the toilet of browsers. As in, if you ever are required to temporarily install some pervasive plugin or extension to take a proctored exam or something, Edge is good to use because you know you won't use the that browser for anything you care about and you can protect good browsers from those garbage plugins.
Its not often trump officials admit to falling for a scam and attacking another country.
Mom: If someone else is jumping off a bridge, would you too?
GOP: Yes