Trinity Blair 🥀🔞+Nov 30
A very informative flow chart.
Show threadShaamba â“‹Nov 30

@trinityblair Hey @grok is this true?

In all seriousness, AI helps a lot for super niche search questions, like a song you know one lyric to, but other things as well like the key or whatever tf. What would be optimal is a local LLM you can run on your own comp, for privacy.

Problem is, AI's a lot like social media, where it *has* legit uses, but 90% of people get one-shotted by it and degenerate.

Show threadTrinity Blair 🥀🔞+
@Shaamba the issue is billionaires are the ones pushing out AI models meant to be clickbait. AI is already being used to do a lot of good but the public doesn't have access to said AI because it would make it useless. AI is only as useful as the information it is trained on. Continuing to use AI models that actively harm communities and the planet is a weird choice, but I can't stop you.
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Show threadShaamba â“‹Dec 2

@trinityblair Well, I won't defend the push from the elites on AI; it's obviously overhyped and a bubble. But that doesn't mean a local LLM can't have its uses.

As for "harming the planet," I don't think it's *uniquely* bad. I mean, not worse than many other things people are broadly "okay" with (e.g., buying non-local goods, animal farming, traveling, etc.).

Show threadTrinity Blair 🥀🔞+Dec 2
@Shaamba giant servers pumping out toxins near communities is uniquely bad. Locally hosted AI is fine but it also depends on how it’s being trained and the content it’s being trained on and if it continues to learn from user interaction (usually bad because misinformation).
Show threadShaamba â“‹Dec 2

@trinityblair Farming also pumps out toxins near communities, for instance, and farming which isn't essential, like AI is similarly not. Either way, toxins end up in communities, so most everything does that as well. There doesn't seem to be any special evil on the part of AI wrt the environment. Not to say there isn't any problem, but that it's not unique to AI.

But the convo on misinformation and how it's used (and can rot the brain) is v interesting, if besides my point.

Show threadTrinity Blair 🥀🔞+Dec 2

@Shaamba you don’t seem to understand the amount of toxins and the harm they inflict on the communities near them, which happens to usually be low income communities. An entire neighborhood has been wiped out due to just one data center…

There are poor methods for farming out there that shouldn't be done, however, farming is absolutely essential. AI doesn’t feed people. Odd take.