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Funny, I feel like it’s the opposite. I appreciate the use of a local LLM over renting GPU time, but unless you trained the model yourself I’m still not in love with the source.

Also it’s just made my entire field unstable and less fun.

Friend, you’re clearly getting tilted. Every single reply has a highschool tier dig tagged on for no reason.

You know you can have actual discussions with people in these threads, right?

Lol. “Look at it go on my personal project, wow I could never! I am a title worm! Go Sam Altman!” It really does work. What a great term haha

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Sorry we’re enemies now. We have to fight anytime we’re in the same thread. I wish it didn’t have to be this way.

I mean it’s clean room but without even having to pay highly skilled engineers to do all the labour. It’s pretty catastrophic to the field.

That’s exactly what I said—that I’m highly sceptical.

It would basically have to backfire on all their plans and all the trillions of dollars they’re spending.

It would be very surprising. I would be so surprised.

I’m incredibly against the big LLM SaaS providers and material waste besides. Anyway I don’t have a crystal ball and I’m highly sceptical that this technology will work out for average people, but it sure would be interesting if it somehow lead to less corporate control and cultural enclosure rather than how it seems to be going right now.

I’m more miffed about GPL or copyleft code going to proprietary software and then being profited from without any attribution. It’s a poison pill.

I feel like this might be describing just Instagram, because I have no idea what they mean by buzzwords and butter text. But from the images I’m assuming that’s Instagram.

Fedi is definitely social media and has many many problems, some of them perhaps inherent to any social media I’m sure. But posting sure doesn’t feel pointless here, it feels fun.

Edit: oh OK I wasn’t done reading. We definitely yell here lol oh boy howdy

It’s called a comparison.

Interesting, I had no idea. I use my browser on my phone. Actually even when I was using a 10 year old phone, I found I had to use browser for everything because no apps would support my old Android OS.

To me the browser always seemed the more accessible option, but I’m used to using a browser from desktop it’s true.

I don’t know why anyone uses apps for any of this. It’s literally just websites. Not to yuck in anyone.

I used an app back in the reddit days but I find lemmy doesn’t have all the cruft that I hate, so I just use the default web UI.

I feel like this is a new user phenomenon.

When I first started on the fediverse I was kind of an obnoxious evangelist for decentralized social media.

Fast forward some years and I still love it and think it’s far superior to the closed corporate monoplatforms, but I’m also fine if the fediverse stays roughly where it is. But I’d also be happy if more people were to discover that you can be on social media without funding billionaires’ future killbot funds.

I worry a bit about waves of “normies” coming in and redditing up the place, but remind myself that federation is voluntary and I can always just go join the smaller networks that will inevitably pop up.

Like I also use snac2 to access the fediverse, and the opt-in nature of that implementation makes slowly and deliberately building a network graph of cool people feel really good.

Exactly. So even when you win, someone else loses.

I didn’t mean to rail or express outrage, I just don’t care for content or engagement that doesn’t have an author.

I think what sets lemmy apart, other than the our superior protocol, is the high quality of genuine interactions. I’m not interested in personally sacrificing on that for anything.

Like I would call this a high quality disagreement right here—I’m fully bought in because I recognise your username from other threads and recall you have meaningful things to say that I believe are genuine and may actually change or alter my opinion.

It’s not that I disagree with anything the other account was posting, but that I believe they’re faking engagement, they give off influencer vibes, and I’m not in lemmy for either of those things.

Third panel makes it.

Imo the fediverse, and internet at large, has more than enough “content” already. I’m fine with more people sharing their takes, but if they’re going to do so in an already oversaturated space the least they can do is make it a quality piece that they actually made.

I don’t need all the fluff generated up around the quote. Just give be the quote and the bare take if that’s all you want to say.

I definitely do. But yeah a lot of people on GH are worried about employability and a big part of that is showing you’re down with big corpo tech.