Mastodawn

As a new, very green, very basic sysadmin, something missing from the manual vs. let’s ask a LLM mode is… the human element.

Aside from ethical considerations (environmental costs, stolen training data, erosion of skills and critical thinking), I will always choose “manual mode.” Why? I love receiving tech advice from people on the Fediverse.

I will forever remember that it’s @ilja who encouraged me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost.

I first heard about #FreeBSD from @stefano

Earlier this week I learned about #tmux from @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks

Today @antoine_ali helped me get this GoToSocial instance to federate again by restarting dnsmasq.

I know if I run into issues I can just shoot a DM to my tech mentors @stereo and @jan

Let’s not forget the beauty of human connections 💖

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Yet another Josh

1d ago

@elena @ilja @stefano @teapot_ben @drfyzziks @antoine_ali @stereo @jan

If I run my own LLM, with a completely open weight and open source weights, is it really "stolen knowledge"?

How would that not be similar to a human reading the book, and incorporating the book in their mind?

Its the learning function, transformers, and attention that starts to dispel the 'magic' of humanity. And then the copyright howls.

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Dr. Fyzziks

@crankylinuxuser Take me off your AI reply-train, thanks. I helped Elena with tmux, that’s it. I have zero interest in participating in an unrelated discussion about AI ethics.