That’s optimistic.
It’s assuming the Dem Party doesn’t sabotage their own candidates. It’s assuming they don’t campaign like it’s 1960 again. It’s assuming social media will somehow be reigned in.
It’s assuming there will even be a fair environment for an election, instead of the government (and whoever’s conflated with them) putting thumbs on the scales kinda like Hungary, or worse. It doesn’t take much pressure to sway elections in environments this polarized.
In the future, when we’re transcendent tentacled robofurries doing poly in virtual space, on drugs (think Yivo from Futurama), we will look back in confusion at why so many people hate homosexuality so much. Like… don’t they have other things to worry about?
Or humanity will be all dead, I guess.
And I’m talking about the mega conservatives protesting this; at least the Vatican is baby stepping and trying to minimize their cruelty.
Funny thing is Teslas already have something more sophisticated. They could pipe the FSD’s diagnostics to a HUD as a more polished, standard ‘overlay’ for the driver, literally run with the car’s own hardware. You’d think Tesla execs would know about that since it’s literally their business, and predates the LLM craze.
…But no.
This is so stupid.
To me, “AI” in a car would be like highlighting pedestrians in a HUD, or alerting you if an unknown person messes with the car, or maybe adjusting mood lighting based on context. Or safety features.
…Not a chatbot.
I’m more “pro” (locally hostable, task specific) machine learning than like 99% of Lemmy, but I find the corporate obsession with cloud instruct textbots bizarre. It would be like every food corp living and breathing succulents. Cacti are neat, but they don’t need to be strapped to every chip bag, every takeout, every pack of forks.
A lot, but less than you’d think! Basically a RTX 3090/threadripper system with a lot of RAM (192GB?)
With this framework, specifically: https://github.com/ikawrakow/ik_llama.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file
The “dense” part of the model can stay on the GPU while the experts can be offloaded to the CPU, and the whole thing can be quantized to ~3 bits average, instead of 8 bits like the full model.
That’s just a hack for personal use, though. The intended way to run it is on a couple of H100 boxes, and to serve it to many, many, many users at once. LLMs run more efficiently when they serve in parallel. Eg generating tokens for 4 users isn’t much slower than generating them for 2, and Deepseek explicitly architected it to be really fast at scale. It is “lightweight” in a sense.
…But if you have a “sane” system, it’s indeed a bit large. The best I can run on my 24GB vram system are 32B - 49B dense models (like Qwen 3 or nemotron), or 70B mixture of experts (like the new Hunyuan 70B).
DeepSeek, now that is a filtered LLM.
The web version has a strict filter that cuts it off. Not sure about API access, but raw Deepseek 671B is actually pretty open. Especially with the right prompting.
There are also finetunes that specifically remove China-specific refusals. Note that Microsoft actually added saftey training to “improve its risk profile”:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/MAI-DS-R1
https://huggingface.co/perplexity-ai/r1-1776
That’s the virtue of being an open weights LLM. Over filtering is not a problem, one can tweak it to do whatever you want.
Grok losing the guardrails means it will be distilled internet speech deprived of decency and empathy.
Instruct LLMs aren’t trained on raw data.
It wouldn’t be talking like this if it was just trained on randomized, augmented conversations, or even mostly Twitter data. They cherry picked “anti woke” data to placate Musk real quick, and the result effectively drove the model crazy. It has all the signatures of a bad finetune: specific overused phrases, common obsessions, going off-topic, and so on.
…Not that I don’t agree with you in principle. Twitter is a terrible source for data, heh.
Nitpick: it was never ‘filtered’
LLMs can be trained to refuse excessively (which is kinda stupid and is objectively proven to make them dumber), but the correct term is ‘biased’. If it was filtered, it would literally give empty responses for anything deemed harmful, or at least noticably take some time to retry.
They trained it to praise hitler, intentionally. They didn’t remove any guardrails. Not that Musk acolytes would know any different.
Traning data is curated and continous.
In other words, one (for example, Musk) can finetune the big language model on a small pattern of data (for example, antisemetic content) to ‘steer’ the LLM’s outputs towards that.
You could bias it towards fluffy bunny discussions, then turn around and send it the other direction.
Each round of finetuning does “lobotomize” the model to some extent though, making it forget stuff, overuses common phrases, reducing its ability to generalize, ‘erasing’ careful anti-reptition tuning and stuff like that. In other words, if Elon is telling his engineers “I don’t like these responses. Make the AI less woke, right now,” he’s basically sabotaging their work. They’d have to start over with the pretrain and sprinkle that data into months(?) of retraining to keep it from dumbing down or going off the rails.
There are ways around this outlined in research papers (and some open source projects), but Big Tech is kinda dumb and ‘lazy’ since they’re so flush with cash, so they don’t use them. Shrug.
MAGA Outrage Over Director Saying Superman Is an Immigrant
(We’re about a decade too late, and our engorged trolls are now our leaders, but still…)
No, you misunderstand; it’s a sound scheme. I wouldn’t be against it.
…Which just underscores how horrific of a situation we are in. It’s an akin to “okay, a meteor is coming; what about this plan to deflect it into the arctic?”
Fossil fuel companies are lobbying for the “everything is fine” propaganda, not geoengineering schemes that indirectly reinforce how dangerously unstable the planet could be.
There is a nugget of ‘truth’ here:
https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2023/390_1107.html
I can’t find my good source on tis, but there are very real proposals to seed the arctic or antarctic with aerosols to stem a runaway greenhouse gas effect.
It’s horrific. It would basically rain down sulfiric acid onto the terrain; even worse than it sounds. But it would only cost billions, not trillions of other geoengineering schemes I’ve scene.
…And the worst part is it’s arctic/climate researchers proposing this. They intimately know exactly how awful it would be, which shows how desperate they are to even publish such a thing.
But I can totally understand how a layman (maybe vaguley familiar with chemtrail conspiracies) would come across this and be appalled, and how conservative influencers pounce on it cause they can’t help themselves.
Thanks to people like MTG, geoengineering efforts will never even be considered. :(
TL;DR Scientists really are proposing truly horrific geoengineering schemes “injecting chemicals into the atmosphere” out of airplanes. But it’s because of how desperate they are to head off something apocalyptic, and it’s not even close to being implemented. They’re just theories and plans.
I’m sure a foreign government will leak more about Trump’s involvement with Epstein.
So?
Imagine the entire UN (bar the US) put their stamp of approval on video evidence. What difference would it make?
OK, while in principle this looks bad…
This is (looking it up) like an experienced engineer’s salary in Peru, in line with some other professions.
It’s reasonable to compensate a president, and for the expectation to not be coming in rich/connected enough to not need a salary. Nor for them to broker power for personal wealth, all as long as other offices and reasonably compensated too.
It avoids perverse incentives, doesn’t seem excessive and TBH is probably a drop in the Peruvian govt’s budget.
…iOS forces uses Apple services including getting apps through Apple…
Can’t speak to the rest of the claims, but Android practically does too. If one has to sideload an app, you’ve lost 99% of users, if not more.
It makes me suspect they’re not talking about the stock systems OEMs ship.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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Aren’t fighters dead?
Look, I like cool planes, but military scenarios where 5-500 drones are worse than a single mega expensive jet not already covered by existing planes/missiles seem… very rare.
Look at Ukraine’s drone ops. I mean, hell, imagine if the DoD put their budget into that.
Well, exactly. Trump apparently has a line to Apple and could probably get Tim to take it down.
How does this make any sense?
Shouldn’t they be suing Apple to take it down if they don’t like it? I know they just want to weaken press, but it feels like an especially weak excuse.
And I shit you not, latinos will still vote MAGA in droves in 2026, and once again, analysts and Democrats will be left scratching their head wondering why while literally everyone they pass on the street is glued to their phone.
Maybe if they keep campaigning like it’s 1950, it’ll eventually work?
Fair point! I am not up to date TBH.
I guess I’m pretty jaded too. The DNC getting things together!? What is this?