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Ah, yes. Just another tool that is in the hands of people who don't want to pay humans. Who are stealing art and novels from actual people for "training" purposes. A tool that is chewing up natural resources and straining power grids. It is a weapon being used by those in power to destroy human creation. Not a tool.
I honestly somehow forgot America and isnotReal exist.
for context I have always only used Chinese open source models and yes I got your point there, it's a valid point.
Let the bubble burst because of the Us Ai is more harm than good to the world, I'm not even that reliant on it.
Did you completely forget about local models?
Yeah, someone can run a local model and then train or fine-tune it with other people's work, then make it spit a sloppy collage of all it and say is something new and that they did it so it's of their property.
You don’t train nor fine tune local models, there’s no need. And for me they’re just helping write regular expressions most of the time.
You can actually fine-tune or even train or re-train local models.
Not everyone is doing that but a everyday bigger amount of people is doing so. And whoever that do that is because they want a a model tailored to their needs, that may be too hiperspecific.
Most of these AI-bros do use local AI so they don't have to pay for it. And in the same line, if they're "AI 'artists'" (although the correct name would be AI-sloppers), they're gonna train or fine tune these models with whatever they want to, without any permission, then they're gonna sell the resultant collages (literally, collages) on internet while robbing other artists work.
I have suffered that (I'm music producer and I have listened to plenty of literal fragments of music I have manually produced inside and output of some "AI 'musicians'", and the worst part is those songs were WIPs I showed to some friends in a private group in Discord). My best friend too (he's drawer and, again, he has seen literal fragments of his drawings, but also of drawings from artists he follows, and again, these drawings were only shared in a private group).
Can you link me to local fine tuning or retraining? I’d love to lean a new technique