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I agree with Carmack, but let's be real here. Asking the average Joe to crank out their own personal LLM is like asking the average Joe to stand up their own M
by nunez 3y ago
I agree with Carmack, but let's be real here.
Asking the average Joe to crank out their own personal LLM is like asking the average Joe to stand up their own Mastodon (i.e. unrealistic).
When given the choice between owning your data and spending two minutes to do so vs. opening $MEGA_LLM in your browser and telling it to make you Instagram for Guinea Pigs, $MEGA_LLM will win every time. Doubly so now that $MEGA_LLM is starting to appear in _everything_.
Case in point: OpenAI is already well-past 100M users. many of them are _paid_ users (which is unprecedented).
I don't think running your own LLM should be illegal (under what grounds would that happen anyway?), but I'm also concerned about the world depending on, like, five huge entities for all knowledge.
- hackernewds 3y agowhy is this bad? we already rely on 1 entity (Google) for 80% of query searches and another (Amazon) for 45% of product searches. the world hasn't crumbled, yet retrieving information has gotten magnitudes easier than trying to find an entertaining stream (Netflix, Prime, Peacock, Pluto, Tubi, Disney, Max, Paramount+, YouTube and so on)
- brokenmachine 3y ago>the world hasn't crumbled yet
- nunez 3y agoBecause those platforms provide an illusion of choice, and LLMs do not (by default). Having a single entity that tells you what it thinks is the right answer short circuits needing to think critically about the answer that was provided. This is especially bad when, in the case of ChatGPT, people are using it as a therapist, doctor, teacher, lawyer, pair programmer, and more. There is also the possibility of a central authority using the platform to tell you how to think. When you control the model, you control the narrative. I think this could be extremely dangerous in the wrong hands.
- strikelaserclaw 3y agoGive humans a way to be lazy and they will take it every time, this is just a fundamental law of nature.