Yes.

Ah, yes, I was waiting for the Taliban to tell me which one of these two online clusterfucks to start using.

I’m surprised they even care about Twitter, wouldn’t they want to be underground?

Yep, especially for young people in the United States.

People have become so attached to “one place only for everything” that something as simple as blue/green bubbles (and associated service differences) will be enough to isolate.

The messiah of maximal convenience makes differentiation harder and harder for everyone.

(And for everyone who says “Everyone here just uses Telegram/Whatsapp/QQ/Line, not a problem over here!”, guess what, you’re still probably gonna be exclusionary to other services just like the blue/green folks. It just doesn’t happen to affect you.)

I hope to god you are right. What will truly be a revolution is if somehow these models can be transitioned to CPU-bound rather than GPU without completely tanking performance. Then we can start talking about running it on phones and laptops.

But I don’t know how much more you can squeeze out of the LLM stone. I’m surprised that we got what was essentially a brute-forcing of concepts, with massive catalogs of data, rather than one more hand-crafted/built from scratch. Maybe there is another way to go about? God I hope so, so OSS can use it before the big guys convince governments to drop the hammer.

Good. Hell, once the user-instance blocking thing comes out, give people a list and instructions to block those political instances, porn ones, etc. etc. I always like it to be on the user level, rather than some over-arching force telling me what I can and can’t view. Freedom to make the decision for yourself should be a large priority.

I would have preferred to have a no-defederation policy (except for maybe threads due to EEE fears), but as long as it is not swung around constantly, I am okay with it.

The two that are blocked are political circlejerks that I personally dislike anyways. I am hopeful there is not more.

And I disagree with it too. And it’s not because of how good the models are in technical terms, the corporate juggernauts are only just ahead of OSS on that front… it’s server space and the money to acquire it that is the moat.

An average internet user will not install the Vicunas and the Pygmalions and the LLaMAs of the LLM space. Why?

For one, the field is too complicated to get into, but, more importantly, a lot of people can’t.

Even the lowest complexity models require a PC + graphics card with a fairly beefy amount of VRAM (6GB at bare minimum), and the ones that can go toe-to-toe with ChatGPT are barely runnable on even the most monstrous of cards. No one is gonna shell out 1500 bucks for the 4090 just so they can run Vicuna-30B.

They are gonna use online, free-to-use, no BS, no technical jargon LLM services. All the major companies know that.

ChatGPT and services like it have made the expectation: “just type it in, get amazing response in seconds, no matter where”.

OSS can’t beat that, at least not right now. And until it can, the 99% will be in Silicon Valley’s jaws.

Because an ad or a subscription is more obvious.

Algorithms are harder to prove and don’t interrupt the flow of content, thus less people get pissed, which means less people leave, and they can charge higher rates to advertisers.

Most lurkers view the Twitter/TikTok reposts Reddit is full of, which have not slowed down, or the ““advice”” subreddits, which have not slowed down either.

The content that people like us like, some of it has moved away, but the people who are willing to chase that content are a very small minority.

This gets made back by September.

95% of people who use reddit use the official app or website, and don’t notice a single thing except the occasional stray John Oliver meme.

Not enough hobby communities left.

Honestly, this is “danger to the people” territory. He needs to be deposed.

Definitely. Hell, maybe if food started to rot on the vine, we’d get a WWII-style sense of community back. Americans were (mostly) Americans first, political camps second when it was wartime. And saving our nation from (supposed) starvation I think would bring lots and lots together. Something this country damn well needs with how isolated we are as people.

To be frank, I think this is a good thing. Maybe working conditions will improve. Leftists always say with businesses that pay shit wages “If raising your employee pay to a living wage would kill your business, it didn’t deserve to exist in the first place.”

That should apply to everyone.

Keeping this system of exploitation (which is what hiring undocumented immigrants is) is an affront to humanity. It’s sad that this is even tolerated. I mean, DeSantis is a hack who hates freedom and should not become president, but this is one of his few moves I (mostly) agree with.

How long until it is possible to get an AI GF? Depending on how real-feeling you want it to be, 10 years or so I’d suspect. But, if you want something that feels warm-blooded, that’s gonna need heating. And if it moves, to curl around you like for sleeping or something, that’s gonna be a cost, unless you wanna hear metal clanking.

It’ll be very expensive (>$3000) for the good ones, and this isn’t even mentioning the fact that should one exist, the reckoning that has put ChatGPT into limbo will come for this as well. People already complain about sex dolls, how they allow men to “act out and normalize perverted fantasies” and “make them more likely to rape women”, and that will explode should a true woman-replacable companion come out. Hell, that could easily result in them being banned entirely, but almost certainly even more expensive.

It’s not going to be the paradise you think it is, in all likelihood.

Man this year has just been a total collapse of everything:

c.ai filtrations

GPT slowly being neutered thanks to societal concerns

Twitter being fucked by Mr. Elon “I know everything” Musk

Imgur cleaning house for no reason

Reddit dropping a nuke on 3rd Party apps

Netflix killing password sharing

Youtube feeling in to kill adblockers

-and now gfycat is about to collapse entirely.

What the actual fuck?

Doubtful, to be honest.

Most who have used 3rd Party apps have already migrated or found some other solution. Those who don’t care are still using the official app, and, to be frank, despite what everyone says, the quality content hasn’t decreased by that much.

It’s still half Twitter and TikTok reposts, and one-fourth ‘advice subs’ (creative writing), like it’s been for several years before this debacle.

Hell, maybe this is a good thing in some ways, where that kind of content can hopefully fall by the wayside over here, instead of choking communities out like it does in Reddit. (I have over 50 popular subreddits on Boost filtered out to avoid this stuff, and it’s still not enough to get rid of all of it)