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we don't need opensource AI, we need to destroy AI
You can run AI without causing environmental problems just like you can drive cars without burning fossil fuels and you can have industrial production without creating pollutants.
All of that just cuts into the profits though.
Then prove it. The whole system starting from creation to use. Otherwise, this is just a thought experiment in the same vein as the debatelords who say "buh murder can be ethical in some cases".
While real people are suffering in reality thanks to the toy you like, the fantasy deflections just enable that harm.
Unintentionally funny since murder is the illegal killing of humans so making it legal makes it not murder.
the way the technology is run and built is in itself despicable. It is an abomination.
So is modern food production. Doesn't mean stop eating.
This is a creepy statement. Human life is not equatable to a billionaire's toy, and it is dangerously immoral to suggest it is.
The fact that consumers have LLM garbage shoved in their face doesn't mean that the exponential increase in other ML use cases isn't driving life saving technology. The COVID vaccine only deployed as fast as it did because of AI ML. 20% of surgeries right now are robot assisted and all of those use AI ML.
On a personal level I've been able to move my family to FOSS because of LLMs. LLMs are very good at understanding how open source software works and translating the workflows to human language. I personally can read man pages but others in my family honestly don't want to have to in order to just watch a show on AppleTV. I can do this with a small local LLM running on a low wattage micro server.
We are seeing LLMs enabling us easily to overwrite the proprietary software in our home devices and take back hardware and improve repairability so we can stop producing so much E Waste. And the more that companies use LLM code to slop up their embedded devices the easier it becomes.