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Grow Your Own Services 🌱 @homegrown@social.growyourown.services
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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.
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Grow Your Own Services 🌱 @homegrown@social.growyourown.services
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p.s. Because of the above, I do not think LLMs are compatible with the principles of self-hosting or community hosting.

Normalising LLMs is effectively handing over our brains and computers to massive corporations owned by amoral billionaires who just want power, and don't care if the world burns as a result of it.

LLMs are being openly promoted as a way to kill personal computing and human intellectual skills. Sam Altman openly says he wants to sell "intelligence as a service".
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Grow Your Own Services 🌱 @homegrown@social.growyourown.services
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p.p.s. Lots more problems with LLMs:

- LLMs are unreliable as they frequently produce extremely wrong answers, pizza recipes with glue, incorrect medical summaries etc.

- LLMs are entirely dependent on stolen human data. If LLMs have human data cut off, their output turns to gibberish.

- LLMs can be easily used to astroturf any online discourse.

- LLM owners can easily manipulate their users with misleading answers.

- LLMs are killing the websites they steal data from.

etc.
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WestFox35 @westfox35@wcgw.art
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@homegrown Yes, I can agree with all of these points.
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