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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's worth mentioning two things here.

I'm not inherently against LLMs and AI.
Im against putting the power of LLMs in the hands of the employers instead of the workers. People self-hosting their own free LLMs to make their job and home life easier? I'm all about that, and I can even forgive the theft and energy usage to an extent.

And also that I'm a developer in this space - I don't train models or sell them directly, but I make products that use LLMs to increase productivity. I know I'm part of the problem, but I was transfere onto the project and my job is simply too good to quit over it, so I'm a hypocrite to some extent. What people in this space are trying to do is absolutely replace workers so that businesses can save on payroll and increase margins. They don't say it, but it's telling how they dance around the topic.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

good news for you, there is a lot of open source AI shit out there that you can start fucking with today or tomorrow even. The technicality is that doing anything particular exciting requires about a billion dollars in hardware to actually train models and create usable data sets lol.

What people in this space are trying to do is absolutely replace workers so that businesses can save on payroll and increase margins. They don’t say it, but it’s telling how they dance around the topic.

i'm sure they are, business owners would have 0 employees if they could, but i'm just not convinced that AI is at a point now, or will ever be at a point where it can ever do that effectively. Maybe in an amazon warehouse, which is probably for the better anyway.