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  • thesdev@feddit.orgOPtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldThe AI Compass
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    3 months ago

    I think that the training of small models is relatively ethical, given the modest scale. Even more, if they use open datasets.

    Do you know of any models matching these criteria? My understanding is that the cheap-to-produce/open-weight models are either just not good or have been trained on output from ChatGPT and Claude, neither of which sounds like a practical alternative to Big Tech.


  • thesdev@feddit.orgOPtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldThe AI Compass
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    3 months ago

    I’m with you, but sadly I think you should ask yourself the question of how much the businesses care about these points. Not how much they should care, but how much they do actually care. For me as a developer that’s what matters the most, because I cannot maintain my abstinent approach for much longer in the current climate, something needs to happen and tip the balance.



  • thesdev@feddit.orgOPtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldThe AI Compass
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    3 months ago

    I think any other purpose is hammer looking for a nail

    I would agree with this last year, but as a programmer I think the models have become fairly capable in coding. Still not using it myself out of principle and not saying it’s a silver bullet either, but as a striking example I’ve seen how my employer’s marketing team have developed a new version of our public website (not the much more complex main platform, but not a simple landing page either) with Lovable from the ground up. My main hope these days is the current cost structure proving unsustainable for the AI companies to keep up and this becoming their demise in the end (see Ed Zitron), and not much consumers dismissing it as not good enough anymore. I guess that explains why I’m more to the right of that chart compared to you.





  • Sadly I’m pretty hopeless when it comes to individual action because of the insane amount of money involved. I had lost all hope earlier this year, but now there are more and more articles talking about how the math doesn’t math for these companies’ financials, so I’m now sonewhat hopeful that this would eventually put an end to all this.