There’s gemini (terrible name unfortunately due to Google). But anything that becomes popular will just get flooded, too.

So your stance is that as long as there’s anyone in the world not speaking out against everything made by immoral people, you can use whatever you want?

Also just FYI, Omarchy has a big history of beginner-level exploitable bugs, so just from a security standpoint I wouldn’t use it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is just the tech industry in general, not just AI. It’s been deeply unserious for a while now, cutting corners, throwing ethics out the window, just trying to get rich quick. But for the most part, they had to pretend to be serious people. Now AI is giving them a reason to give up the pretense and go mask off.

there used to be enough senior engineers to reign them in most of the time, but now they can just out-shit the serious engineers who can’t keep up with all the shit, and management’s obsession with AI is giving them the free pass to get away with it.

I think it really started some time around 2010, when the promise of easy money as a software engineer started attracting more people that do not really care for the craft, just to earn well while phoning it in with an easy desk job*. And AI really empowers that crowd.

*not saying this is necessarily wrong given that a lot of tech companies suck and if you leech off of them, well, more power to you. But it does not make it fun to work with those kinds of coworkers.

To be fair to the AI slop detector, Kurzgesagt is pretty close to slop…

of course in part because AI slop copies their content/style a lot, but imo that’s because the content lends itself to that. Cute cartoon to give you pretty colors to look at plus voiceover superficially discussing a topic is right up AI’s alley.

not that this is ok of google, and it’s yet another in a long series of things that show that youtube does not care about its workforce at all.

I hate this timeline

My personal pet peeve is everything having a ‘why it matters’ section. Not everything needs to matter, it can just be fun. I already clicked the link, no need to convince me. Also it’s often just restating the opening paragraph. And it makes everything sound like a marketing piece.

yes, agreed. And while right now its environmental impact is low due to renewable energy use, I have no doubt that if this caught on and had to serve more users, the environmental part would get just as bad as other LLMs.

I think you misunderstood, i thought it funny that meta is putting expensive GPUs into what amounts to chicken coops. Not that the article was wrong and there’s actual chickens inside

Are these just industrial chicken coops?

You know, this kind of thing:

There’s https://apertvs.ai/ probably as close as it gets. Government funded, made by universities. Afaik its datacenter is powered by hydro. But it is an academic project, so still uses common crawl and other publicly available datasets, which is considered ok practice in academia but still means consent is opt out, if something is publicly available. And of course no one uses this, because no marketing and it’s not as ‘good’ as models trained on stolen data.

Plus you could still argue that the energy and tax payer money could be better spent elsewhere.

flying penguin blog post on why that’s a lie

it’s only http traffic, not traffic in general, and it’s AI crawlers from the big companies, not agents running on behalf mf users.

In a way, LLMs have already taken my job as a software engineer. It’s not that they can do my job better than me. But they suck all the joy out of the field, they expose the almost religious culture around efficiency and velocity in the field (no, i don’t want to be 5% faster to make the boss richer and feel miserable doing it) and how little my peers care about craft and quality. Also why do those fucks have to lap up every new technofacist oligarchy thing with such enthusiasm, it pisses me off.

so it’s not that it does my job, but that it showed me how much i disdain this field now.

I’m thinking of switching to something (cnc) machining/cad related, both skills i taught myself and love , but i don’t know what kind of position could be suitable given my dev knowledge and lack of formal training. Plus i wouldn’t want to do the operator kind of work where all you do is put stock in the cnc machine and execute someone elses CAM, that seems too close to using LLMs in spirit. I do want and like creative work and tinkering.

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and I’m lucky enough to work for a university, so good work life balance, job security, pension, mostly meaningful work. Ironically enough in the AI field… But that makes considering to switch even harder. I could easily and comfortably coast along and feel discontent for many years to come.