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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

They've been acting like that from the start πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] [email protected] 196 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago

The bait and switch classic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I'm clutching my pearls as I type this.

[–] seven_phone 166 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So the development of inorganic intelligence, considered by many as an inflection point in human civilisation is to be handed to business graduates who are historically proven to be capable of any level of atrocity in the name of corporate greed. America, fuck yeah.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

~~America~~ Greed, fuck yeah.

Don't fool yourself. The USA lost the exclusivity deal on unchecked corpo greed a long time ago. This is a global issue now.

[–] Arbiter 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] seven_phone 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, the American tag was just a throwaway line, greed unchecked, insane and self-harming has always been with us. We let it sit with us around our camp fires like wolves but unlike wolves we never tamed it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Actually corporations themselves are 99% of what people fear about AGI already in their inhuman decisionmaking to the detriment of humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"ClosedAI" rebrand when?

🀣

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Stop depending on these proprietary LLMs. Go to [email protected].

There are open-source LLMs you can run on your own computer if you have a powerful GPU. Models like OLMo and Falcon are made by true non-profits and universities, and they reach GPT-3.5 level of capability.

There are also open-weight models that you can run locally and fine-tune to your liking (although these don’t have open-source training data or code). The best of these (Alibaba’s Qwen, Meta’s llama, Mistral, Deepseek, etc.) match and sometimes exceed GPT 4o capabilities.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And there are also free, online hosted instances of those same LLMs in a (relatively speaking) privacy-protecting format from DuckDuckGo, for anyone who doesn't have a powerful GPU :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

i'm not so sure on the privacy of any of this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Interesting. So they mix the requests between all DDG users before sending them to β€œunderlying model providers”. The providers like OAI and Anthropic will likely log the requests, but mixing is still a big step forward. My question is what do they do with the open-weight models? Do they also use some external inference provider that may log the requests? Or does DDG control the inference process?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought they were a for-profit company all this time.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty much non-profit in name only. Some shady hybrid model.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

OpenAI sure seems like a case study in how to grift everyone by masquerading as a non profit whilst actually enriching yourself and your shareholders, causing a whole new class of societal problems in the process.

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[–] rottingleaf 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No problem, after they release all the data collected under the excuse of public good and progress.

[–] tb_ 1 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Open to All Income.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, apart from the people like me who thought they had always been one because they acted exactly like one.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Booooooooooo!

Anyway: ill just keep using alpaca to run llms locally

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[–] benignintervention 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] davidgro 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

'subtle' product recommendations

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I'm Open AI and this is my favorite shop in the Citadel.

[–] benignintervention 8 points 1 week ago

Yup, conversational product plugs

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They should also change their name to ClosedAI while they're at it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There was never another outcome.

Capitalism breeds one thing, and it certainly isn't innovation, and it most definitely isnt not-for-profit innovation.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hahaha. April 1st is early this year.
They are never going to make enough money by selling licenses and subscriptions for the cost of their current models (smarter people than me have made good estimates), let alone the future ones. Those future models are at a much worse performance-cost ratio. Ads will at best bring in about 1 usd per user per month (estimated by Facebook revenue and number of users) - double or triple it just for lolz, and they would still be losing money.
So… how will this be pulled off? Only wrong answers!

[–] Nikelui 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have a partnership with Microsoft and ship Windows 12 as the new "AI only" OS. Every command must go through ChatGPT to work. Then push updates to older Win11 OS to make them unusable.

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[–] confusedbytheBasics 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How fast are they burning money right now?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Based on their funding rounds, $10 billion lasts about 18 months.

So about $555 million per month.

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[–] just_another_person 16 points 1 week ago

No kidding. πŸ™€

[–] Jimmycakes 13 points 1 week ago

Lol like it wasn't always.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didnt they do this like a year ago

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, but I don't think they made a profit so giving it another go

[–] Boiglenoight 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is going to sound weird but so is the internet their icon suggests a chain of bodies eating out the ass of the one in front of them which to me seems apt for the product

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
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