Comment Re:The comments on it's size are interesting. (Score 1) 14
The implication that these bots can be scaled down to run fine on a phone means that maybe we also get something like "Freedom Bot, Expert on the Constitution." or "Liberty Bot, who helps you fight censorship". Ie.. things the majority of current West-coast tech moguls would be horrified by. If the barrier for entry is lower in terms of code and infrastructure, then it's reasonable to expect a diversity of opinions to emerge in terms of the political leanings of these things. Because of their extreme bias, I'm not willing to listen to the current crop of bots, but maybe the next gen will have more political clue. Here's hoping. I'm okay if I've gotta side-load it or compile it out of pkgsrc. I'm not okay being lectured on progressive politics by ChatGPT or Gemini.
Thankfully the vast majority of the computing effort goes into pretraining. Censorship and vendor instilled bias applied on top especially in smaller models is relatively easy to undo. Give it a few weeks and I'm sure there will be tons of tweaked versions on huggingface with much of the brain damage removed.