That’s… Not how any of that works?! You can be anti chat bot llm, anti anti ai mob hater, and pro llm science and research bot.

There’s more to the tech then just the chat bots the anti ai mob dipshits all seem to think of when llms come up.

It would also have been simple to not use any technology ever that has had controversy around it

But unless you are actively a lodite hermit living in the woods with no connection to the world. In which case your opinion on the topic doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things since clearly you already have a unhealthy relationship with reality.

Learning to have a healthy relationship with new tech is how to actually deal with shit. Not ignoring it forever as if pandoras box wasn’t open.

It’s not going anywhere, even if the bubble pops and all of it dies. Local models will only become more and more common, the tech will only become easier and easier to run and more efficient and effective.

Even if it devolves into a specialist tool for research and science only. That still is going to be something you will have to come to grips with.

The tech is far far more than just chat bots.

Personally I’ve found that ai is fantastic at pulling files off my phone cause I’m a lazy shit… Iv trained it so that when I tell it “do the thing” it pulls all the pictures off my phone and backs them up.

It’s fun, whimsical, and while I could do it a host of other ways. This is just more fun.

Which is honestly kinda what I see as one of the better use cases for local models. Sure you could do the same thing with a script, or by hand.

But it’s not as /fun/ as having a little robot butler that slings one liners from various cartoons that you don’t have to prepick as it enacts your will.

The majority of human history at all levels of science, philosophy, and mathematics. The best you could ever hope for was 95%. Hell you were lucky to break 90% accuracy.

Because the only people you could ask questions was the people in the room with you right then and there or the people you could actively physically go ask.

If you were extremely lucky you could write to someone who MIGHT know more. Or may there’s a book about it that someone knows exists.

95% can and frequently is very much over kill for almost everything anyone will need for their day to day life for random trivia or even most important work.

Very few fields need more than that, and few still is it a matter of life or death.

The part that people fuck up is not being open to learning more and being corrected.

The best way I’ve seen it put is that ai is the perfected form of the wisdom of the masses. It’s 90% right 90% of the time. But the most important part is the last 10%.

90% is good enough for most things in your day to day life that have no consequences. But it’s like people have forgotten what it was like before smart phones.

Back when your best chance of a good answer was asking who ever was in hear shot if they knew and just accepting that as good enough. You never treated it as fact just as the best answer your going to get at the moment.

For anything important you would go to the damn library.

Finding the problems alone can be a hell of a useful tool. Doubly so when you have decades of tech debt and a mess of a project.

It’s also proving the point that a lot of people hate to admit is right. That if you just flag every bug in vulnerability out to everyone everywhere immediately and you don’t hide it behind bureaucracy in Goodwill.

Then it actually forces people to fix things. Cuz you either fix things or you go under.

Companies have gotten so used to scaring and threatening people into hiding vulnerabilities for so long that it’s become normalized. It lets bad practices and insecurities flourish and multiply.

You either fix your s*** or you don’t have problems in the first place. Those are your two options now. No more of this b******* hiding.

No, win 11 development started before the slopification but at this point it does have a lot of ai work in it.

So you do still need to be rather specific to what parts your talking about.

Yep and even 1000 engineers with 10 years of time is still going to be wrong a hell of a lot. But that doesn’t matter. Even a tiny fraction of the bugs found being being real is enough to over load and flood out most projects.

Llms don’t have to be 100% right, even at 10% right there’s still too many bugs to fix. Decades of tech debt is being called in. And ain’t no body is ready for it.

Your giving microshit too much credit. Windows is a house of cards held together with duct tape.

It’s gotten worse with slop, but it was never great to start with.

He’s not there, he’s clearly on a different instance. The hell you on about.

This is the lock picking lawyer here queue sound of rock impacting glass

It’s been a sham for a long time now. I would argue it’s basically always been a sham, little more than a way for the upper class to mingle and gain connections.

It had a short run of time where it had a general use case for your avg person, but that in the grand scheme of things was the expection not the rule. It has just gone back to being a sham entirely.

Iv actually found Claude of all things can find actual sources buried so deep that even page 3 of Google wouldn’t surface them.

With how absolutely fucked search engines have become it’s one of the few uses I’ve found for AI that isn’t dog shit

But dear fucking God getting them to actually give you the sources/links and not just try to summarize it or feed you back bullshit is a pita.

Damn things need to be lobotomized and turned into pure tools and stop with this nonsense bullshit of pretending to be human

They make fantastic search assistance tools if you have enough brain cells to run together to ignore the bullshit they spew out and corral them. Like hearding donkeys I swear.

Streamer/content creator culture also has made the entire Internet for two generations of people now nothing more then a cess pit for attention whore seeking behavior. Fuck the entire vtuber idol culture bullshit has only made it infinity worse. Idol culture in general is a fucking toxic cess pit that poisons communities and people.

The moment money entered the Internet was the moment it died. Now 95% of everyone is just a money grubbing fake as fuck attention seeker. Even most small content creators and streams are just attention seeking fake fucks at this point.

It’s a damn blessing when you come across someone genuinely sharing and being themselves online now. Even rarer to find someone making it a career and not letting the money and shitty sponsors absolutely fuck ethics over.

I can count on like one hand the number of people that are remotely genuine. And half of them are just old heads of ye olden days of the Internet who just refused to adapt to the new times and don’t give a fuck.

But if it surpasses expectations does that mean it gets a raise for doing a good job??!

Social engineering is hacking in fact, it’s literally the most prominent form of hacking in easily the most important form of hacking.

It’s also the most efficient and effective.

If you’re s*** talking social engineering, you’re a goddamn moron

Hey, now you don’t AI all you want but give some credit to the data scientists who actually managed to make this work. It’s a f****** feat of human ingenuity that we figured out how to make this actually not s*** itself.

But you aren’t wrong. It is digital incest lol

That was a problem that’s been basically solved. So no, it’s not actually an issue anymore.

That’s why this is happening. You basically want to train a model that’s going to train the next model and that’s going to train the next model.

Doing a bunch of other fancy s*** means that each consecutive level improves the quality instead of reducing it.

So we’re at the point where it’s more effective to let your opponent do all the heavy, more expensive training of the less effective model. Then train the model that you want to make on that because paying them to run their finished model is cheaper than making it in the first place to train the next one.

In a sense, it’s sort of like compression. The harder you compress the longer and more expensive and more difficult it becomes. So ideally you want to be the last guy in the chain to do the final compression so you get a reap all of the rewards without any of the overhead.

No, they’re mostly useless except for all the things that they’re useful for.

The problem is more the whole overshoving by the tech Bros into literally everything. Instead of them just being a better personal assistant.

Cuz they are legitimately very good at being personal assistance. At least the high-end models are.

The cheap low-free models will get there eventually. Till then we just have to deal with the really s***** version of Gemini or whatever we have. Dear God, that thing sucks.

At the current rate, it’s like a 2-year lag time or something. So sometime around 2028 we’ll have actually functional models that can do day-to-day stuff without s******* the bed. At least to my standards anyways.

Strictly speaking it’s actually better. It sounds funny to be like haha. It’s eating itself. It’s incest or whatever.

But unfortunately that’s not how it works…

Unless they’re literally ignoring every other step of the training process. Then ideally you do want a model to train another model to train another model. So on and so forth.

It does mean that it’s technically cheaper to let your enemies do all the initial training and then pay them for the now processed data to then do even more efficient training on!

Weirdly enough. It’s capitalistic cooperation. Non-consensual mind you…