I blame Egon.
that last one doesn’t add up
I think it’s directed at the “I don’t use commercial LLMs, I just run small local models” crowd
yes and what books are they destroying?
Those smaller models are trained on the larger models. They take just as many resources to train and then you add on more training, so they’re literally worse than the big models.
What if your power comes from renewables? And if you’re training private data?
What if a unicorn gave me the first ethical local model, now all my sins are absolved
Then they still used just as many resources? All these local models are distillations of the big models.
And what if tech oligarchs weren’t evil and used this new technology to make lives better instead of concentrating capital? We don’t have that either so there’s no use speculating.
Snark aside, I think you’re underestimating just how much data it takes to make these models work. There is no such thing as enough “private” data for training.
There is no such thing as enough “private” data for training.
what the fuck are you on about? You can build local datasets and train additional LORAs locally to have more relevant outputs, and it doesn’t go back to the creators of the original weights.
You are describing fine tuning, no? Which still requires a base model that was trained on a massive amount of other data.
The passages you had memorised.
We opted for downloading as many books as possible from a number of pirates sites and stashing them on a usb drive away plan instead. Wife and son have been very busy.
Your only access to information will be through AI and what you get to access will be based on how poor you are. We can stop this trend, we can stop this future, you’d all have to actually do something though, is that beyond you? Doing a bit of a thing to save the future?
