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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

They've been acting like that from the start πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 193 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago

The bait and switch classic.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No problem, after they release all the data collected under the excuse of public good and progress.

[–] [email protected] 164 points 4 days ago (5 children)

So the development of inorganic intelligence, considered by many as an inflection point in human civilisation is to be handed to business graduates who are historically proven to be capable of any level of atrocity in the name of corporate greed. America, fuck yeah.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (1 children)

~~America~~ Greed, fuck yeah.

Don't fool yourself. The USA lost the exclusivity deal on unchecked corpo greed a long time ago. This is a global issue now.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 days ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Actually corporations themselves are 99% of what people fear about AGI already in their inhuman decisionmaking to the detriment of humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 104 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"ClosedAI" rebrand when?

🀣

[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Stop depending on these proprietary LLMs. Go to [email protected].

There are open-source LLMs you can run on your own computer if you have a powerful GPU. Models like OLMo and Falcon are made by true non-profits and universities, and they reach GPT-3.5 level of capability.

There are also open-weight models that you can run locally and fine-tune to your liking (although these don’t have open-source training data or code). The best of these (Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s llama, Mistral, Deepseek, etc.) match and sometimes exceed GPT 4o capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And there are also free, online hosted instances of those same LLMs in a (relatively speaking) privacy-protecting format from DuckDuckGo, for anyone who doesn't have a powerful GPU :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

i'm not so sure on the privacy of any of this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Interesting. So they mix the requests between all DDG users before sending them to β€œunderlying model providers”. The providers like OAI and Anthropic will likely log the requests, but mixing is still a big step forward. My question is what do they do with the open-weight models? Do they also use some external inference provider that may log the requests? Or does DDG control the inference process?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

The issue with that method, as you've noted, is that it prevents people with less powerful computers from running local LLMs. There are a few models that would be able to run on an underpowered machine, such as TinyLlama; but most users want a model that can do a plethora of tasks efficiently like ChatGPT can, I daresay. For people who have such hardware limitations, I believe the only option is relying on models that can be accessed online.

For that, I would recommend Mistral's Mixtral models (https://chat.mistral.ai/) and the surfeit of models available on Poe AI's platform (https://poe.com/). Particularly, I use Poe for interacting with the surprising diversity of Llama models they have available on the website.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Booooooooooo!

Anyway: ill just keep using alpaca to run llms locally

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

is there an easy way to do this that doesn't require me to understand how github works?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I recommend Ollama, its easy to setup and the cli can download and run llms. With some more techsavviness you can get openwebui as a nice ui.

https://ollama.com/ https://openwebui.com/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think that in that case, YouTube is your friend. There are a few pretty straight forward videos that can help you out; if you're serious about it you're going have to, eventually, become familiar with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Alpaca for linux is easy to use. You just install the flatpak and the llm of your choice. You dont need to know how to use github. (It might have a windows version but im not sure)

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Open to All Income.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought they were a for-profit company all this time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pretty much non-profit in name only. Some shady hybrid model.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

OpenAI sure seems like a case study in how to grift everyone by masquerading as a non profit whilst actually enriching yourself and your shareholders, causing a whole new class of societal problems in the process.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, apart from the people like me who thought they had always been one because they acted exactly like one.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

'subtle' product recommendations

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

I'm Open AI and this is my favorite shop in the Citadel.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There was never another outcome.

Capitalism breeds one thing, and it certainly isn't innovation, and it most definitely isnt not-for-profit innovation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Capitalism is extremely good at breeding superficial, go-to-market innovation. It's less good at funding the pure research that leads to major discoveries. But once it gets closer to engineering than to science, it's highly effective. Even Marx commented on that.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

They should also change their name to ClosedAI while they're at it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (14 children)

Hahaha. April 1st is early this year.
They are never going to make enough money by selling licenses and subscriptions for the cost of their current models (smarter people than me have made good estimates), let alone the future ones. Those future models are at a much worse performance-cost ratio. Ads will at best bring in about 1 usd per user per month (estimated by Facebook revenue and number of users) - double or triple it just for lolz, and they would still be losing money.
So… how will this be pulled off? Only wrong answers!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have a partnership with Microsoft and ship Windows 12 as the new "AI only" OS. Every command must go through ChatGPT to work. Then push updates to older Win11 OS to make them unusable.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is going to sound weird but so is the internet their icon suggests a chain of bodies eating out the ass of the one in front of them which to me seems apt for the product

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Didnt they do this like a year ago

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

No kidding. πŸ™€

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Lol like it wasn't always.

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