it only generates the most statistically likely text string to follow

Sure, but if that looks identical to what an ectual expert would say, is there really a difference?

LLMs have no expertise, it can only regurgitate text strings that are most likely, based on stealing the creative and scientific output of actual experts

I do agree there is a problem eith AI companies using copyrighted works for training, but couldn’t you say the same thing about humans? If I read a book and tell someone else what I learned from that book, did I steal that information? If I pirated the book, yes. If I bought the book, then most people woulf say no.

as long as LLM providers decide they provide that

You say this as if we cant self host AI models. The companies don’t matter given this fact

Anyways, you read like a giant AI-Booster

I can separate greedy tech corporations from the development of new technology. If you denied electricities expansion because the Edison company was greedy, you’d be fighting the existence of electricity in our infrastructure.

But it’s ok, I can just block you for your “Mein AI-Kampf” screed here.

That’s probably for the best, given how that is an absurd ad hominem that is not related whatsoever to our discussion.

My main argument is that recognizing AI as a technology is inevitable and revolutionary, is very different from being okay with the AI mega corps, how they are devloping AI, and the environmental impacts of it. AI can be done right, that doesn’t mean it is.

Blockchain was supposed to be very good for a handful of things. Smart contracts were never going to revolutionize the world, maybe a couple industries. I did not care about block chain technology, it was too specific.

I can have a personal tutor give me a customized lesson plan for little to no cost. It can look at large amounts of code in little to no time.

Energy comes from other sources than oil and methane. The fact the US is not prioritizing those alternate methods is a different problem.

AI will get more efficient, it will get better with less energy and storage. I am not saying the tech bros are not problematic. I am saying their problems do not negate the reality of AI as a technology, and the things it has unlocked.

Nuclear fusion created both atomic weapons and nuclear energy. Somebody advocating for nuclear energy is not also advocating for more nuclear warheads.

Cryptocurrency and NFTs are both blockchain. Blockchain by definition have very limited applications. It is hyped because anyone can use it to rug pull others pretending to be an investement. I’m not putting my life savings in AI. Not only that, but how can I use blockchain to help me with my schooling or cooking or thinking through a conplex problem? Metaverse is a product from a single company, not a technology.

AI as an idea would be more comparable to electricity, internet, smart phones, or other widespread technological advancement. They impact basically every industry, both residential and commercial applications. They are a technology and not specific to a single company (though there are some dominant players). This is more like an advancement in a game that has just been unlocked. There is no re-locking it.

It is inevitable because even if everyone stopped making more, people would still be using it forever. It is already too good to not use. And it will only get better. That could not be said for your other examples. How is that anything but inevitable?

I think fighting the tech companies makes sense. But fighting AI as a technology does not make sense.

Comparing AI to the guillotine is absurd. The guillotine and beheadings would literally only impact 1 single industry, and no other.

At one point adding electricity meant adding to the bottom line of Thomas Edison and Edison Illuminating Company. Why spend all the money and infrastructure when you are just going to get light when candles work fine? Not to mention how dangerous and ugly electric poles are. Who wants those hovering over their head??

People literally fought electricity because they were looking too close. If you take a step back, you know when something is a big deal based on what potential impacts it could have on a variety of industries. Same with the internet. People saw the potential, and corporations saw the money. There was a bubble, the bubble popped, and the real potential was left behind. AI bubble will pop at some point, and the genuine application of AI will be left behind and whether we want it to or not, will change the world. The technology exists, and pandoras box has been opened.

This is not a matter of faster beheadings, this is a matter of a conversational pocket expert with immediate response times at any time of day. The technology will only get better, it will only get more efficient. Nvidia will not hold their power forever. You can separate the technology from the corporations profiting and recognize what will happen.

How is it invalid? You are missing out on optimizations if you arent programming in assembly. We don’t anymore because technology has changed, and tools have been developed to make writing code easier and faster.

I use firefox because of its containers

Tbf, the problem was extensions here. Which if they have those blocked as well this wouldn’t be a problem.

As part of our continued collaboration with Anthropic

Anthropic is literally the one that refused to let them make autonomous weapons with their AI. There is a whole wikipedia page about it. They explicitly don’t want their AI used for weapons. Of course, that wouldn’t stop governments/militaries from doing so anyway. It would be different if Mozilla was working with OpenAI, but of the two Anthropic is currently the better one.

And yes, the AI is out of the box. Just like once nuclear warheads were created, there is no going back.

No? Things just will exist once they are discovered. Once nuclear warheads were discovered, there was no going back. Once the internet was established, it was going to be around. Same goes for a million other things. And now it applies to AI as well. Even if every big tech fascist stopped making AI, it is still going to be around, and it will be used maliciously. Our best bet is to use it defensibly before it can be used against us.

So you code strictly in assembly? If you do, good for you. If you don’t, the I can’t believe you would intentional deskill yourself.

Same

There’s also nothing saying they are even in the US. Or at this point even human

Or maybe it’s the governments dislike of VPNs being used to bypass surveillance

Gotcha. I misunderstood. I didn’t think it would be just that, because of course if they have your phone they have the contents. Signal encrypts end to end, but if they have the end device of course it isn’t encrypted.

I know about the setting. Why are you saying that information is sent to Google’s servers? As far as I have found, that information is only stored locally on your phone

Edit: If this is just about the fact it’s on the phone locally, of course if they have your actual phone they can see it. Signal is end to end encrypted, but it isn’t go to be encrypted on each end, otherwise you couldn’t read messages. Them getting your actual phone is very different from them intercepting the communication without you knowing

Source? I am not seeing anything about that. The only problem I have seen on Android is when applications use firebase for notifications, which is most play store apps to be fair, just no FDroid apps or some privacy preserving apps

You also don’t need to do this on Android unless you are concerned about random people seeing the messages on your screen. Signal on Android does not use Google’s push notification service

As I already replied om one of your other comments:

It’s not because of push notifications. the message is not sent to firebase, just a signal that the app should do a refresh.

Is is 100% because of firebase. Here is an example payload from firebases official document:

{
  "message":{
    "token":"bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_HHwgIpoDKCIZvvDMExUdFQ3P1...",
    "notification":{
      "title":"Portugal vs. Denmark",
      "body":"great match!"
    }
  }
}

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/customize-messages/set-message-type

Notification history is purely local to the device. It is not sent to any servers.

It’s not because of push notifications. the message is not sent to firebase, just a signal that the app should do a refresh.

Is is 100% because of firebase. Here is an example payload from firebases official document:

{
  "message":{
    "token":"bk3RNwTe3H0:CI2k_HHwgIpoDKCIZvvDMExUdFQ3P1...",
    "notification":{
      "title":"Portugal vs. Denmark",
      "body":"great match!"
    }
  }
}

https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/customize-messages/set-message-type

Notification history is purely local to the device. It is not sent to any servers.

This is not always the same on Android. Any app from FDroid will not use Google’s push notification service because it is proprietary, meaning it violates the rules for FDroid. Signal does not use Google’s notification service