Why does it cost so much to engineer new models?
We need at least two massive quantum leaps in quality before this stuff can be long-term profitable; and there probably simply aren’t two quantum leaps left in the current pathways being explored.
But turning off all the bots, contracts, and lies would cause the investment money to stop immediately, rather than later.
Everyone perpetrating this scam wants to cash out a tiny bit more before it crashes.
Right. But Fermi’s Paradox applies.
Everyone is buying and selling software miracle cure…but all of the software itself is still exaclty as healthy as a con artists prize race horse (not healthy, and actually a mule).
And a lot more money. And so much more power and water. And more data. And more money, too.
They probably live much longer.
But then that’s more years of not eating and drinking to excess…so I can see it both ways.
I was taught how to eat in school, from a food pyriamid modified by producers of breads, dairy and sugar. :(
We can try to amplify the voices of the underrepresented.
Sometimes that might mean sitting with “let’s all take 5”.
“Let it kill ten people. I’m still not eating mushed peas, Dad.”
“Someone may inconvenience you, today. Give yourself permission to knock things off of their desk.”
go south
The path south is blocked by lack of DM preparation trees.
slip between the trees
These are really packed in there. Roll dexterity.
20
Needed a 25, sorry.
“Anyway, Kevin - the kid your fiancé is pregnant with is mine, so it’s fine. We’re cool, right Kevin?”
Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google.
Opening a PO Box in person should avoid this issue.
Post Office Boxes are the solution.
Doesn’t outlook support imap?
Officially, it can. Many organizations turn IMAP off “for security reasons.”
Edit: Microsoft routinely turns off features for security reasons, so this comment may age poorly, if not already.
My experience with ethically run (if unethically created) local models has been similar. Lots odd hardware to get slow mediocre answers.
But the biggest reason AI competes with plain old web search is that they’ve enshittified the web search available to us.
Corporate assholes are breaking search to force people to use their centralized harmful AI answer guessers.
We can fight back with Searx. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx
There’s an earthquake happening due to the ride behind them rumbling by between frames.
I’m so tired of “Ai big number” headlines. 100+ packages - but how many good ones? (Genuinely, I don’t know, as I don’t the recognize those listed.)
We need projects that diligently keep the slop out. We don’t need every protect to do so, but it is critical that some do.
We have Meta and Microsoft to provide quick-to-market low quality shit.
The version of Linux that matters is the slow thoughtful good software.
I’m not mad at slop slingers, aa long as they don’t secretly inject slop risk where not welcome.
Edit: Thanks for responses.
For anyone who has read this far, I encourage seeing responses below for informative and nuanced thoughts on this.
I’m working on adding to my vocabulary:
“Please be yourself.”
Free space.
Not my living room. Nice try, fuckers.