Note by @westfox35

Grow Your Own Services 🌱 @homegrown@social.growyourown.services

13h

I know LLMs are interesting as toys, but they are fundamentally problematic:

- Even if you self-host an LLM, its model is created unethically elsewhere so it's not really independent or ethical.

- LLM creation is extremely resource-intensive, which is burning the planet and destroying communities.

- Hardware prices are being driven so high that ordinary people cannot afford to buy computers.

- LLMs are designed to deskill people and make them dependent on corporate models.

#LLM #AI

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WestFox35 @westfox35@wcgw.art

11h

@homegrown I feel like you're posting this to see what camp people fall into and that's kinda shitty.

Anyway, I don't support LLMs for MOST things. I do find they are remarkably good at making fictional stories for entertainment. That's... really it.

My two cents.

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Grow Your Own Services 🌱 @homegrown@social.growyourown.services

10h

@westfox35

"I feel like you're posting this to see what camp people fall into and that's kinda shitty."

I can promise you I'm not. LLMs are just awful unethical tech.

"I do find they are remarkably good at making fictional stories for entertainment. "

LLMs aren't making anything. They're jumbling up bits of writing that have been stolen from uncredited human authors.

LLMs are laundering plagiarism. Take away the human data and LLM output turns to gibberish en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse

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WestFox35 @westfox35@wcgw.art

10h

@homegrown Yes, I'm aware of this.

It doesn't change the fact that they are good at generating fictional stories for entertainment purposes.

I do not support LLM's, just to be clear.

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Grow Your Own Services 🌱 @homegrown@social.growyourown.services

10h

@westfox35

They aren't generating them, they're stealing them.

They're not good at anything except repackaging work by human beings.

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WestFox35 @westfox35@wcgw.art

10h

@homegrown Again, I'm aware of this.

I'd love to see legislation pass that completely bans LLM's, but that won't happen.

Edit: And not because the general population supports them. It won't happen because the capitalists and rich won't allow them to be banned. Shitty situation all around.

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