lmao, honestly from what i’ve seen lemmy is very much pro slop – and it’s been quite disheartening. i’ve mostly just stayed on mastodon lately cause i don’t have the bandwidth to fight with people who say “but local models!” … nah fuck that. LLM’s are a racist, fascist, anti-human, anti-social, anti-intellectual, regressive, inefficient, ecoterrorist, counter-revolutionary, class traitor technology. Even with open weights / open models ran locally, it still only reduces peoples capacity to learn, create and build community. It still pushes us as a society apart. There are technologies that can be up lifting and constructive, but this isn’t one. There is no reason to chase more lines of code, or more pages in a book – instead chasing to better understand, better communicate, better organize together. Every “leftist” person on lemmy who is pro local llm’s, is just excited about the technology and that leaves very little room for organizing and utilizing this unique time where there could be a non-partisan reason to organize against the oligarchs and fascists who are in power in much of the world right now.

I dabbled with AI usage for a while, ran some local models, would try whatever was the current best for when there was a project that I didn’t really want to put the effort into learning about–and I found it was just always regressive and annoying. I’d brick hardware, or my context would get so big that the output would continue to become more sloppy. I started just going back to reading documentation, and it was just always easier. It was always easier to just grep for whatever I needed. Whenever I’d go back to simply trying to understand the problem and just fucking read, I’d feel almost like a haze being lifted. I think this is the point where I realized, most complaints that people have with software etc are already solved issues that most “tech” refuses to implement or has enshitified. So instead of just solving the problem in a predictive / deterministic way, we are instead being sold a technology that will burn incredible amounts of fuel, will requires incredible amounts of resources all to what–search through my email? More slowly than what was developed in the 70’s would. Then I read ‘Blood in the machine’ and ‘End times fascism’, watched ‘ghost in the machine’ and read more most and articles… The sheer mass amount of violence and suffering created is unimaginable.

I think my stance is mostly, even without the ethical issues – what use would this technology even have? Why would I want a computer to do the learning and creating, when I could instead enjoy the work of my friends, and enjoy creating something for others; while building a community. and community is the #1 way to curb fascism. also my computing is more and more evolving into something more similar to permacomputing. My music and art taste has always been more into finding & connecting with artists locally, or at least artists who I can actually interact with and understand. Outsourcing these things to a machine would not bring any joy.