> My personal problem with Stable diffusion moment is that nothing practical came up from that momen Before Stable Diffusion democratized image generation, Ver

> My personal problem with Stable diffusion moment is that nothing practical came up from that momen Before Stable Diffusion democratized image generation, Very Serious People across the industry claimed that unless they and their friends exercised strict control over the kinds of images people generated using AI, society would collapse, the sky would fall, and it would all be over. After that, the public gained access to diffusion models for imagine generation, and the sky did not in fact fall. These prognosticators of doom are wearing egg on their faces. Likewise, today, the intelligentsia is predicting DOOM! DOOM I SAY! if LLMs become available outside the close supervision (and censorship control) of San Francisco trust and safety teams. Democratizing LLMs will further delegitimize claims that some central authority needs to control this new technology. This is great! When the printing press came out, it took a hundred years to democratize it. It'll take us ten months! The single biggest benefit of projects like llama.cpp is annihilating claims on the past of gatekeepers that for our own safety we need to let them control how we use math.