Hi, I’m Fubarberry, and I recently took over moderation of this community due to the original mod being inactive.
This community isn’t very active right now, but I wanted to talk to what members are here about what you want from this community.
For example:
- should this community focus more on AI in general, AI as a tool for creating things (images/video/music/stories/etc), or something else?
- Should this sub be focused on a more positive discussion of AI? Personally I feel like there’s no shortage of places on lemmy to doompost about AI right now, so this community would be more useful discussing beneficial uses of AI. Constructive criticism/acknowledging of issues is fine.
- Should we focus on AI tools available to end-users, and/or discuss AI news in general (AI used for medical research for example).
- Any other thoughts and opinions you have on this community.
Also side note, but right now this community has a bit of an issue with new posts being immediately downvoted. I’m not sure if it’s members of the community, or people browsing /all, but I’d ask people to only downvote if the post is unrelated to the community or factually incorrect.
You’re going to have to ban drive-by downvoters.
Personally, I’d like to see a primary focus on systems that can be run locally, and systems which run on lower capability hardware, but that’s just me.
When it comes to stuff people can’t really run at home, maybe also encourage posting on systems that aren’t LLMs or art regurgitators, for example machine learning & “AI” in areas like weather forecasting, drug design, materials science, etc.
(edit: I suppose not all of those uses are generative… 🤷)
There’s some overlap with more active communities like localllama I think.
But yeah, as other said, focus on local running! Or at least using local interfaces with APIs and such, pretty much anything but mainstream stuff like Grok and ChatGPT.
I have some knowledge here. Should I write up guides to exllamav3 and ik_llama.cpp?
Some guides would be great!
I personally find updates to the big mainstream models interesting as well, both as a sign of where things are going, and also with how they can be worked into personal workflow stuff. For example I was reading about people using Gemini API for more powerful OCR for mass document digitizing, and it was interesting to me to read about what it’s relative strengths/weaknesses are compared to traditional methods.
Newly subscribed member here. Personally I’d be interested in hearing about use cases/experiences for self-hosted LLMs and other AIs, hardware accelerators like google coral etc.
ML is also interesting (just set up paperless-ngx and it is amazing how well it learns with the meager resources it takes).
Also as IT professional, it would be interesting to hear experiences about training and certifications around AI and ml.
Oh, yeah, and I’m not sure anything can be done about downvotes. To be blunt, there’s a large section of Lemmy that will just stop reading and downvote anything that has the word “AI” in it.
At the same time, you won’t find many people here get excited about updates to “tech bro” focuses like ChatGPT or whatever.
