Ikr, they’re comparing these protests to their “No Kings” protest which happens bi yearly on Sundays. I’ve lived in India for a few years and have friends there. This protest is massive, elderly politicians from almost all states are there protesting. To the Amerikkkans, please don’t compare your incompetent protests to this. Fucking amerikkkan right wings are funding the RSS in India.

I thought Lemmy would be different, it’s just fucking Reddit now or any other fucking American socials. How confident they feel commenting about stuff they are not knowledgeable in, is beyond me. But do keep making bumper stickers or tweets

Has anyone tried AliasVault ? How’s your experience with it ?

You can run them locally, yes. There are models that can even run on phones, but usecase is limited. But it can only be considered ethical, if the training data used is listed or ethically sourced IMO.

AI bros on Lemmy will disagree with me, but most open weight models are still trained unethically i.e, theft. Most proponents of LLMs (who I talked to on bsky), who say local models are ethical, don’t fucking use it. They’re larping on socials about how awesome it is, but none of the ones I talked to are using it in their projects. They mess around, realise it is not as good as the “unethical” options, go right back to Claude

Open weight models Qwen, deepseek, mistral, and the Ollama stuff etc are unethical in normal people’s eyes, but “ethical” enough for AI bros.

From what I searched, there are very few that can be considered ethical - Olmo, Apertus, Starcoder(?). But idk anyone who uses these. My friend at IBM said they used Apertus, but it was nowhere near good as ChatGPT, so they no longer use Apertus now. And these models require minimum 6-8 GB VRAM for their lowest parameter model iirc.

Even the open-weight model bros are lobbying to redefine what ‘open-source AI’ means. That should give you a fair idea about people behind open-weight as well

Dying Light 1. Kind of late to the game. Liking it so far!

I never understood that argument. The same idiots claim AI will democratize everything, it is inevitable. That one would only need to know natural language, “coding is over” or ‘x’ is over. If it does democratize ‘x’ for everyone with only requirement being natural language, who would even get left behind ??

I tried using a wrapper LLM for a specific software for a project, and sometimes it gives correct answers, sometimes gives the diffuclt way to implement something, sometimes it hallucinates. At first, I thought great, I wouldn’t have to sit through an entire playlist to get the gist of how to do something mildly similar. But recently it has been giving wrong answers. Today it gave answers beginning with “handoff - DENY}” and answers just kept cut off. Sometimes asking a different question, it just resumed the cut off answer from half an hour ago. The stupid piece of shit was wasting my time!! In the end, I just figured it out on my own.

I think NLP is amazing, a computer being able to understand what exactly I’m trying to do/look for is useful. But my work shouldn’t be dependent on an LLM’s “mood”.

Before anyone says just read documentation/tutorials, this is a niche vfx software which doesn’t have good docs and tutorials are mostly outdated for latest versions