They aren’t being tricked. They are doing exactly what they were designed to do

I'm no expert, but if my understanding of LLMs as 'probability calculators' is correct, then if you prompted one properly to produce code which does x (a Photoshop function for example) and it had only been trained on one example of this (the Photoshop source code) it would reproduce the PS source code because that has the highest probability of that being the correct 'answer'.

Looks like everywhere companies mandate employees to install copilot or equivalent.

I think originally they were saying they won't be using the proprietary code for training, but I don't trust those companies when they already broke laws.

This is full conspiracy from me, but could the terms of service for github grant the right to "enhance tools" based on private github projects. These then get moved around as 'anonymized' data to train off?

The models are essentially a giant lossy compression applied to the training data.

They don't store the loseless version of the training data sure, but that doesn't mean it can't reproduce something close enough to it, it's literally how the whole thing works.

It's long been proven that LLMs can produce exact copies of their training data. Not every piece of training data, of course, but enough where spitting out exact replicas of proprietary code is a legitimate concern. Not to mention that copies don't need to be exact in order to be a problem.

So why can they recreate entire articles from the New Yorker and complete functions from the training set? Don't fall for the slop laundering.

I think you are right, but that seems VERY unenforceable.

Piracy is illegal and they are of course doing a great job at stopping that...

Local LLMs will never be illegal, because that genie is out of the bag

With what money? No one is buying bonds. The US would have to print so hard it'd cause hyperinflation, which still means the bubble pops

Bails

You used to be able to BIOS flash workstation GPUs to make them somewhat usable for gaming.... not sure how far these AI GPUs have diverged from gaming cards these days and if a BIOS flash could make them playable.

No it isn't. 0h come on. Yeah thy couldn't possibly take the same or similar hardware components and make them work in PCs.

They are already putting NPUs in PCs.

I can. Compute is compute. Even if it's extremely niche you give me enough cycles I'll find something to run on it.

There is a geniuly cool idea floated a last year I think at xorg conf for a Linux driver that used GPGPU instructions to do the traditional GPU processing as well. So theoretically you could use some of the AI accell to instead compute things like rastors.

That was always the plan

Government contracted monopoly

You mean like when that town tried to force an xAI data center to not use methane turbines, and they got shut down by the government because the military was allegedly using Grok?

This is all pretty obvious and I agree. They can no longer protect their imaginary property if they allow it to be ran in your computer's memory or stored on your computers hard drive.

The cat is definitely out of the bag, as in their own AI models are making them obselete. The race to make money before the end is what motivates them. They will ride the roller coaster to our societal demise because they only care about money. These people shouldn't be in charge of a small fast food restaurant let alone multi-billion dollar companies.

If private hardware becoming scare would send America back to the stone age, completely choke technological progress.

world ending technology.

Read that as "democratic and free word ending", and it's on purpose as they saw cyberpunk and wanted to become a mega-corporation that rules the world too.

Oh, abliterated models are awesome! Just be aware that they’re a little too agentic at times. Once they start ignoring guardrails, they happily keep ignoring them!

Duh. Which psycho reads manuals?

Semi-related. I switched to Firefox about a year ago, when the Manifest v3 was forced into Chrome. About 2 months ago, I started getting prompted to solve a captcha when using google search, since my traffic was "unusual". This appears to be a javascript issue where FF doesn't respond to some server-side tracking correctly.

I now use DuckDuckGo.

I'm tech savvy, but have sometimes been willing to sell my data for convenience (don't shoot me). But I'm not willing to sell my convenience for convenience: break my ad-blocker or make me captcha to search - fuck right off.

Getting off gmail is going to be hard, but I'm exploring options. Big Tech companies are doing a lot of foot-shooting right now.

They think they won, and can enforce their will, but I'm optimistic that they haven't.