Fuck AI

To be fair, and I’m not a fan of LLMs either, but if someone uses it as a search tool, then that’s just even worse than attempting to use it for something it might actually be helpful and useful for.

Slap them and make them cancel it, if they replace search engines with it. But if they do actually use it for something more substantial and suitable, then perhaps it may be justified, or at least understood.

I don't know what thinking profile your friend was using but asking ChatGPT that with the mixed tasks profile showed an almost immediate result with absolutely no thinking required.

LLM's are a tool, like with any tool there is a learning curve, and in my opinion the majority of "AI" users are unable to use the tool properly, and then get mad at the tool. Or like you, want to disparage the use of an LLM so they bait the LLM with tasks that it knows will fail or hallucinate on. To me that's like blaming the table saw because it cut off your finger. Do the majority of people need a paid account? No.

Are there people working in the Tech sector who use an LLM everyday, who have corporate accounts and paid accounts at home for their own projects: absolutely. I know a large number of them, most are Lemmy users as well. But because there is so much negativity from the open source crowd, all these engineers are afraid to discuss all the ways it makes our lives easier. So we get a disproportionate amount of negativity. I'm getting to a point where the amount of AI shit posting on here is like the amount of vegan shit posting on Reddit. And just as stupid.

And also fuck Google! Switch to another search engine that doesn't fuck with you or the planet.

For example: Ecosia. https://www.ecosia.org/

Ha! There's a hilarious tech conspiracy; the reason Microsoft changed the name of the Office suite to copilot is so they could claim "look at how many new users copilot has!!?!"

They changed the terms, pray they don't change them further.

R1 last i checked seems to be decent enough for a local model. customizable. but that was a while ago. its release temporarily crashed Nvidia stock because they showed how smart software design trumps mass spending on cutting edge hardware.

at the end of the day its all of our data. we should own the means, especially if we built it by simply existing on the internet. without consent.

if we wish to do this, its crucial that we do everything in our power to dismantle the "profit" structure and investment hype. sooner or later someone will leak the data, and we will have access to locally run versions we can train ourselves. as long as we dont allow them to monopolize hardware, we can have the brain, and the body of it run local.

thats the only time it will be remotely ethical to use, unless its the persuit of attaining these goals.

Huggingface lists thousands of open source models. Each one has a page telling you what base model it's based on, what other models are merged into it, what data its fine-tuned on, etc.

You can search by number of parameters, you can find quantized versions, you can find datasets to fine-tune your own model on.

I don't know about GUI, but I'm sure there are some out there. Definitely options for API too

I use the Apertus model on the LM Studio software. It's all open source:

https://github.com/swiss-ai/apertus-tech-report/blob/main/Apertus_Tech_Report.pdf

My work has group chats. When a lot of messages pile up, an AI auto-generates a summary. Sometimes the summary misses the mark, highlighting details that don’t actually matter. Sometimes it calls people by their last name, which is weird because we don’t usually call each other by our last names.

There is no opt-out. However, it does ask for a thumbs up/down. Since it won’t allow for any more precise feedback or an ability to disable it, I express my distaste by giving it a thumbs-down every single time.