• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The idea that you should fly with exclusively self-hosted approaches is equally absurd to the idea that you should just blindly trust everyone.

    Plus, if they have, as you say, “enough” data already, then surely giving them more doesn’t actually hurt you in any way, shape or form?

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      1 year ago

      yeah, self hosted may be a bit too much for everyone, but they should at least make its training database open as ai is biased on whatever data it is trained on

      eg. like how some smart taps won’t work for black people as the company just didn’t trained the sensors to work with dark skin

      imo, nextcloud took the best approach here, allowing users to utilize chatgpt 4 if needed, while still making a totally in-house FLOSS option available

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      1 year ago

      why not?

      what is so absurd about code running in an users own device?

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Because it’s just unnecessary. Due to their nature, you want a few services reachable from anywhere, anyways. There’s no reason for the average consumer to acquire hardware for this purpose. Just rent the service or the hardware elsewhere, which also reduces upfront cost which is ideal in situations where you cannot know whether you’ll stick with the service.

        Again, it’s either extreme that’s absurd. You don’t need your own video streaming platform for example. In rare cases, sure. For the vast majority of people, Netflix is a much service however.

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          1 year ago

          hard disagree on that one, the opposite is true. we end up with companies centralizing it on huge datacenters and not even being able to profit from it (services like youtube are unprofitable). best solution would be a federated service. I digress though because video platforms are a completely different beast.

          something as personal like ai assistants should utilize the processing power i already have available, wasteful not to.

          also its a BAD idea to hand out data for something so personal to google yet again. lets not keep repeating that mistake if we can avoid it.