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That's fair, also congratulations. Idk if I would count that towards contributing to the internet though, since it's all within their walled garden on their own terms. It's helpful for people, but only insofar as it helps Google. 10 years ago I might be less critical since they were still in their "don't be evil" phase and creating open source projects like Android left and right, something they're evidently regretting now and trying to lock down using propriety core apps. It's also worth noting Google's AI employees authored "Attention is all you need", the paper which laid the groundwork for modern Transformer-based LLMs, though that's an architecture and not a full model or code.

If only there were some kind of open AI research lab lmao. In all seriousness Anthropic is pretty close to that, though it appears to be a public benefit corporation rather than a nonprofit. Luckily the open source community in general is really picking up the slack even without a centralized organization, I wouldn't be surprised if we get something like the Linux Foundation eventually.

That's late-stage capitalism for you – even revolution comes with a subscription fee

To be honest I'm fine with it in isolation, copyright is bullshit and the internet is a quasi-socialist utopia where information (an infinitely-copyable resource which thus has infinite supply and 0 value under capitalist economics) is free and humanity can collaborate as a species. The problem becomes that companies like Google are parasites that take and don't give back, or even make life actively worse for everyone else. The demand for compensation isn't so much because people deserve compensation for IP per se, it's an implicit understanding of the inherent unfairness of Google claiming ownership of other people's information while hoarding it and the wealth it generates with no compensation for the people who actually made that wealth. "If you're going to steal from us, at least pay us a fraction of the wealth like a normal capitalist".

If they made the models open source then it'd at least be debatable, though still suss since there's a huge push for companies to replace all cognitive labor with AI whether or not it's even ready for that (which itself is only a problem insofar as people need to work to live, professionally created media is art insofar as humans make it for a purpose but corporations only care about it as media/content so AI fits the bill perfectly). Corporations are artificial metaintelligences with misaligned terminal goals so this is a match made in superhell. There's a nonzero chance corporations might actually replace all human employees and even shareholders and just become their own version of skynet.

Really what I'm saying is we should eat the rich, burn down the googleplex, and take back the means of production.

I'm trying to network some spare laptop motherboards together with a working laptop that remotes in, my Desktop named Theseus, my AWS VPS, and a raspberry pi running Home Assistant to make a mini supercomputer to run AI locally. Unfortunately I have a bad habit of "painting the Mona Lisa pixel by pixel', so I've been stuck cutting holes, gluing things with ABS-acetone paste, and putting in heatset inserts (for maximum serviceability) for weeks to make cases for them while my ADHD ass keeps forgetting what I was doing and switching between tasks at random 🥲 One of them is done enough that I got the metal tape for grounding laid down so I only have maybe a few weeks left

The network's name is Navi, as an homage to Serial Experiments Lain!

Reminds me of TERFs/FARTs saying the "science" agrees with them (ie "lies we tell to children so they understand the basics"), meanwhile every actual geneticist, doctor, etc is like "keep that word out of your lying gullet"

It always seems to be projection with conservatives, it's very strange

People arguing he shouldn't be prosecuted is wild, like we've been so cowed into submission by this dumpster fire of an electoral system that we're afraid to prosecute high treason because otherwise the treasonist might win

I use rechargeable interchangeable batteries wherever I can, but I recently ran into some issues with an ultra-cheap BDC "massage" pillow. The OCP in the batteries was getting triggered and the motor would stop and start spinning for 10 seconds at a time. Tried to add small value resistors and capacitors to it but nothing worked and I had to get a pack of alkaline. Only now do I remember I have a bunch of spare 18650s and USB battery charging boards that I could've retrofitted!

I'm not questioning the legitimacy of the indictment, I'm wondering why it took so long to indict such a serious offense. Even the Republican senators were in danger, so I don't get why neither party pushed for it harder.

Why did it take 3 years to indict him?

I'm not sure where I saw this life hack, but I've heard people suggest responding with something like "I'll pray for you, seeing as the devil has entered your heart and made you hateful" to short-circuit conservatives.