It‘s likely BS anyway. Maybe it’s just me but reading about another crazy breakthrough from China every single day during this trade war smells fishy. Because I‘ve seen the exact same propaganda strategy during the pandemic when relations between China and the rest of the world weren‘t exactly the best. A lot of those headlines coming from there are just claims about flashy topics with very little substance or second guessing. And the papers releasing the stories aren‘t exactly the most renowned either.

That horror scenario has been floating around since the announcement of the murderous tin can. And let me just tell you despite everything I am glad there hasn‘t been a serious attempt at remaking this classic in this timeline thus far.

Doxxing made easy. Oh isn‘t the internet a wonderful place? I mean who needs 4Chan when we have ChatGPT, Facebook and Xitter…

Xitter. The proper term is Xitter.

Who still thinks the South Chinese Morning Post is a legit source after what happened to Hong Kong needs a reality check.

The world gets to find out. None of this affects only the USA or China. They‘re both freaking out right now.

I downvoted it because I don‘t want to read the same old nows every day here.

You would think that but even here on the Fediverse where many users have an affection for technology and are generally vary of AI, I‘ve seen people gobbling up the Open Source label when the model was open weights at best.

As a fellow German I have to say this is how it started in Nazi Germany. First on the list were political opponents and the press, then minoritie like people with disabilities, Sinti, Roma and of course the jewish population. Many of them thought they’d be safe until they found themselves inside camps.

„Hey let‘s destroy this thing! It’s in my way and it‘s not perfect anyway!“

Hearing a lot of that rhetoric being thrown around lately. Especially by elites. It‘s like everyone suddenly wants to destroy things left and right, thinking it‘s in the way of something greater. What that something greater is? Not their concern.

I guess when your only tool is a hammer every problem really starts to look like a nail.

That‘s their default, though. It’s not the first time they‘re acting up as an unreliable business partner. I mean they bought all those rare earth mines across the globe for a reason and it‘s not to just stick it to the USA. They‘re both bullies.

He would certainly take credit for it.

Also a shady image to the point some people who have only heard of it think it‘s some deep web voodoo. They have that in common somehow.

The same year Twitter died then.

That seems very counter productive. Isn‘t the entire point if a chatbot to replace and by that destroy social interaction? Of course the whole idea is to collect your data to train AI but that pitch seems insanely unattractive to potential users.

Buy made in China and you pay twice. Most people may have forgotten it but I remember the dragged out supply shortages due to their idiotic and inhumane pandemic policies while denying the pandemic started there and claiming they have everything under control (they didn’t). They’ve proven to be unrealiable which has prompted a world wide process of diversifying supply chains. Trump is an angry lunatic but that doesn’t mean we have to settle with the next worse thing just because it’s quick and easy. There is a whole world out there.

DeepL works pretty good without word salad and it‘s getting better every day. I also don‘t think the Chinese market cares all that much about it.

LLMs will surely remove entry level coders… and some years from now there will be too little senior devs to debug it all. Some see a quick way around a problem, I see a problem in the making.

As for the last part: „Useless“ is what you said, not me. It surely isn‘t as useful as it‘s sold and that writing piece is a prime example for that. The point stands that it‘s sinfully expensive to develop despite what they claim so they need to sell it no matter what it takes. It‘s mainly their incentive and dishonesty I am criticizing.

Practical applications for LLMs such as? There are a lot of claims there but not much substance.

Sorry, but we’ve leaped through this cycle of the next ChatGPT revolution, followed by the next GPT killer, followed by the whole technology being overhyped anyway too many times. It‘s weird to see OpenAI being portrayed as this big villain but it‘s a triumph when others do it.

Truth is they spent much more than they claimed on this and want a return on investment by aggressively pushing it into applications that don‘t need it. It‘s the same old tale every time.

Wait until you hear about a little game called Fallout…

More than ten devices per person will be connected to the Internet simultaneously? Why do I think this is a future we should be fighting against? Cool battery still.