tanteFeb 27

Given how they can only be produced by exploitation of workers from the global majority no system including any of the big LLMs in their production can ever be called "fair".

"Fair LLMs" of the size required to do the tasks people want LLMs to do (badly) do not exist.

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I think it is possible to create small (and fair LLMs) which are capable to do the tasks people want them to do (but for a certain problem scope)

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Show threadHeinousTugboatFeb 27
@realn2s @tante small large language models aren't large language models. They're just language models.
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@realn2s @tante

by-and-large, both worshipers and detractors of "AI" dance to the tune set by the techbros. They have set the narrative and the agenda and it is full of deceitful marketing. The greed is transparent and their objectives double-down on the existing dystopia.

We'll only know the intrinsic potential of this class of algorithms when/if people with different incentives and objectives examine (and further develop) them in new directions and in tandem with other human-centric tools.