one might think i’d be enthralled with anthropic’s ceo defying shitler’s administration and causing orange apoplexy, as i’m a big llm booster. and i do use claude (anthropic’s llm) for some things. still, have you seen the statement that made the shitgibbon lose it? the ceo said he was cool with all sorts of terrible shit, just a few things were too far. the language was drenched in normalized fascism, going so far as to use the dod’s disgusting new chosen name. the fact it was composed like that is just one of a million demonstrations of how far we’ve fallen down the path of tyranny.
naturally mainstream liberals loved it (see katy perry screencapping her purchase of a subscription to claude), which moves the needle more in favor of llms than it used to be. and i’m ok with that, but still. these are the kind of democrats that are gonna jam through a gavin newscum presidential nomination. i say fuck that shit with my entire chest, tetas incluidas, izquierda y derecha.
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That’s what scares me about the whole LLM business. For traditional computing, you could go open source (mostly) or a nerd like me could even write his own tools all by himself, but the “AI” solutions all seem to be controlled by big companies and their toxic ceos.
they won’t be for long! at some point running an LLM on a local device will become a lot more tenable. the core tech is open source, so i’ve heard. in the meantime the best way to use it by far is to spread your action around, use more than one of them, so that u can bail when the enshittification hits and still have something.
personal use is almost a completely separate subject from business / gov use, which is shaping up predictably wretched. at some point, hackers will start using AI v AI to fight the power. of course, before that, they’ll use it for more venal crimes. already are.
In the news: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-used-anthropics-claude-ai-in-iran-strikes-hours-after-trumps-ban-report-iran-israel-us-war-donald-trump-vs-anthropic-11153230
booo these guys all suck
claude’s down, was using it to code a thing. boo!