You mean AI should be rotten to the core with advertisement, surveillance trackers and taken over by Big Data monopolies mostly headquartered in a fascist country?
Yeah, that's pretty much where it's headed.
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How have these sycophants been allowed to seep into every position of decision making or influence.
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Yes, self-hosting and small-group AI hosting needs to be legal, accessible, and feasible.
Despite the pessimistic (and largely technically incorrect) takes here, the internet is actually an incredible feat of human collaboration; the most distributed, interconnected, democratized, and resilient communication system ever built.
You'd hope that Lemmy users, being people who've mostly fled the big social media sites with at very least some marginal technical cost to themselves, wouldn't be pulling a millennial version of the boomer "AOL == The Internet" thing by treating FAANG's sites as the internet, but alas.
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And that's why the Mozilla organization is in decline, users beg for them to stop mucking with AI and make Firefox the unquestionably best browser in any platform, they answer with "OK, here's more AI"
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Mozilla's leadership is still not worthy of those millions.
Oh hell no, why?
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Yeah I too am a big supporter. There are already all sorts of open models on Hugging Face. The smaller fined tuned models are often better than the big models at the specific tasks they are trained for.
There's just a big learning curve at how to start using the open weight models and LoRAs on Hugging Face for example
I 100% agree. The thing that makes AI evil is who owns it.
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