There is a demand, and there is a supply. Decentralization trends lead more and more people to self-host, and you can’t get around it any other way.

But also self-hosted (the central server, i.e. “lighthouse”) and open-source

Lemmy being Lemmy :D

It’s true that majority is unaware and doesn’t care, which is sad.

But we shouldn’t give up. There is plenty of youth going for freedom, and while we don’t yet have RMS of our generation, we will.

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Bonus point: they will be about passion, not the money.

Not saying money shouldn’t be there - we need to support free creators so they could make a living and pursue their passion - but copyright is too often not about that in particular, being owned often not by the authors and squeezing everything if the creation gets popular.

For text, I’d go with HuggingChat based on open-source Llama model. Previously there was Open Assistant, but it got closed. For pictures, renowned Stable Diffusion is the way to go. For music - Stable Audio, respectively.

Please note that none of them are GPL-licensed, so while they are open-source, they can sadly get commercialized in some form in the future. Also, while models are free, in order to meaningfully use them you have to either go through their service (which may annoy with registration, or even take payment for premium features), or train the model yourself (which is unrealistic for a home user). So this is still far from perfect, but it’s miles ahead of trash options from the original comment.

To be completely fair, even open-source AIs are a little bit of a black box due to the way neural networks work - but I’d greatly appreciate if we at least knew the parameters on which it is trained.

It is absolutely possible to train all sorts of biases in a closed-source AI, and that’s what would be very hard in an open-source model. You can roughly set up outputs at whatever. In other ways, using open-source practically removes the malicious human factor (without removing positive impact)

Open-source models also can’t be restricted, paywalled or limited in any meaningful way, which is also vital.

Ah, that name was left from when they’ve been open-source, which us why I advocate for the emergence of GPL-licensed projects.

The open-source license for GPT model was very relaxed, which OpenAI took advantage of and, once it could afford their own programmer staff, closed the code with all the contributions all the programmers from all over the world have made.

It’s an extremely dick move, and it was repeated by Google, too.

Agreed here.

We should be ready for the harsh reality - we just should strive to improve it ourselves.

It takes a big heart to treat people differently from how you were treated, but that’s what makes us humans.

And for as long as the reality is the way it is, we have to brace up to have a chance in challenging it.

Onions, in fact, tenderize meat and many other products, making them more pleasant.

Also, they taste good.

Fair enough

But I thought we speak general population here. Many points raised under this post are not really controversial on Lemmy :D

With that being said, I still see this goddamn ChatGPT all over Lemmy. Like, come on, Lemmy userbase, you’re better than that.

Small counter point: while it is heavily important to be able to shake off life hardships, we should still fight for the world with less unnecessary harm.

Particularly, when you go about professional pursuits, we shouldn’t turn them into a fierce competition that would benefit no one, but should instead stand together and collaborate to make this world better for us all. And in that regard, comfort culture is a much better fit than the culture of the grind; granted, you don’t crank it up to the extremes and still develop and learn new stuff to become better at what you love.

Hot extreme opinion: copyright shouldn’t exist, and authors should be covered by other means, particularly public funding based on usage numbers and donations.

People are crazy when they promote closed-source AI (okay, okay, generative model) projects like ChatGPT, Bard etc.

This is literally one of the most important technologies of the future, and after all the times technology companies screwed them (us) up big time and monopolized the Internet, they go into the same trap again and again.

First they surrendered the free Internet, now they surrender the new frontiers.

Wake up, people. Go HuggingFace, advocate for free AI, and ideally - for a GPL one. We cannot afford for this part of our future to be taken away from us.

More or less :D

Yep, that stuff is impressive, and back in the day I had quite some fun with those redstone creations.

I kinda want to go way beyond what gmod offers, adding properties to every material and rendering players able to do whatever they want with it. There shouldn’t be a scripted “balloon”. There should be a property of latex to expand without breaking up to a certain degree, and there should be gas pressure physics to calculate how much does this latex expand. And then if that’s, say, helium, calculate the upward momentum of it based on air pressure, and the weight of piece of latex, and also calculate if there are any leakages. That sort of thing.

A sandbox, but with realistic in-world physics and ability to do anything.

Wanna burner? Boom, take this tin can, make some holes, put in alcohol and burn. Wanna learn how telephone works? Construct it yourself! Game should simulate real-world physics and just store properties of various objects and materials, allowing you to completely unbound from game mechanics and developer’s intention. Maybe you’d literally be able to conduct scientific experiments in game, and this would be a great in silico model. Maybe you’d be able to understand how things around you work. Maybe you’d be able to reverse engineer other player’s creations. Possibilities are endless, you’re having an entire world in your pocket.

…but yeah, we’d barely have enough developers and computer resources for that.

Boomer humor it is.

In all seriousness, I wish their couple a very happy marriage and happy, healthy kids.