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Today on PBS, we got an insider warning from a lifelong Republican that the fascism got put of hand and is going for full autocracy, even though he'd been pushing through pro-fash policies for the last thirty years.

Everyone thinks The One Ring will be theirs to control.

As does being warned of technological oligarchs monopolizing AI by someone who works for fucking Meta.

Yeah, my own Dad calls me an "activist" now (in a deragotory manner). I never leave my house most days… But okay. I'm an activist because I think AI is a tangible threat to the working class. I've said only a few sentences to my Dad about it. But yeah… I guess I'm the problem for not finding some creative way to profit off LLM's yet.

Yep. As dangerous as that could be, it's better then centralizing it. There are already systems like GPT4all that come with good models that are slower then things like Chat GPT but work similarly well.

I've been thinking about how to do that. The code for most AI is pretty basic and uninteresting. It's mostly modifying the input for something usable. Companies could open source their entire code base without letting anything important out.

The dataset is the real problem. Say you want to classify fruit to check if it's ripe enough for harvesting. You'll need a whole lot of pictures of your preferred fruit where it's both ripe and not ripe. You'll want people who know the fruit to classify those images, and then you can feed it into a model. It's a lot of work, and needs to attract a bunch of people to volunteer their time. Largely the sort of people who haven't traditionally been a part of open source software.