Or. OR.

You say fuck AI and don't use any device with an agent on it, and keep your personal data secured like we did in the 90s and 2000s.

The techbros did a real number on people it seems. None of their tech is vital or needed unless we allow it to be. You can just have a NAS and Keepass. If AI is not a choice, then fuck the cloud.

I don't know what kind of work you're in, but if you're "required" to use LLMs then your employer should be paying for it.

If you mean that "everyone will have to use LLMs to be competitive" then that is a false dichotomy.

Don't rely on anything you can't control. Give me local LLM or death.

Just don't accept it and reject the system then. Revolutions work.

Imagine if people were paid to do these jobs instead? Pay equal to the amount spent on AI. Benefits equal to the cost of the infrastructure it takes to run these LLMs. Just a crazy thought.

i’ve maintained in my personal relationships that LLMs would lead to a recession. perhaps not globally but definitely will be felt in households.

the question you’re asking is right at a time when its relevance is the lowest. that is to say that you’re presuming there’s a future where models will control the minutiae of online services when it’s already too costly for businesses to continue its integration.

and on the notion that your interactions will be recorded forever. humans have a sketchy track record for archiving information. most of life is mundane and no really cares what you do for the most part.

i feel that the ai doomerism is driven partly by people who are both fearful and naive.

China already has a solution to this: train a model on the public model. The only info that releases is that you’re examining the large model.

From that, you create open local models which work just as well for focused tasks on simpler hardware.

You control the local models, so there’s no information leak on how they’re used.

And you use your local models to interact with the commercial models when you have to, so no personal behavior patterns are given away.

I think that the image you paint is quite dystopian, I do not think you are very far off though. It looks to me that our billionaires and governments in the west are intent on creating the future all the science fiction authors warned us about.