You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount of catharsis just from reading.

  • HughJanusEnglish
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    1 year ago

    LLaMA and No Language Left Behind have been huge developments in the AI world - released without trying to profit from them.

    You’re delusional if you really believe that. They’re entirely planning to profit from them. They just need more developers to do it because it’s a monumental task.

    The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funds great science and even almost funded one of my projects.

    Yeah and Bill Gates did all kinds of objectively great philanthropy but he made that money by fucking consumers repeatedly for decades.

    • NewtraEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They’re entirely planning to profit from them.

      What I mean is that they didn’t try to profit from their open-sourcing. They didn’t lock them behind an API or charge a licensing fee like other AI companies.

      Absolutely they’ll profit from having these models, but open-sourcing them actually gave some advantage to their competitors & the general public.

      Yeah and Bill Gates did all kinds of objectively great philanthropy but he made that money by fucking consumers repeatedly for decades.

      The difference is timing. Bill Gates only started thinking about the impact he made on the world after he completely fucked us. He’s trying to repent and just fix his reputation after the fact. Zuckerberg started trying to fix the world while relatively early into the fucking. It’s as if he realizes the harm and is trying to offset it.