... astonishingly clunky on my machine too. Don't think you need vibe coding to fix that though. Perhaps a senior or two who are better at setting the right priorities for the software.

We use both in production here; but, let's be VERY CLEAR: there is absolutely NO FAIR COMPARISON between a locally hosted model on above-average hardware and what Anthropic (and I assume others) is offering with their, currently, subsidized plans.

While this isn't saying much just months ago Anthropic seemed like one of the least sleazy of the corporate AIs. Now I have nothing but absolute contempt for these clowns. The recent campaign of flooding the zone with noise and nonsense around their IPO with the aggressive regulatory pushes to create moats for themselves is beyond disgusting. I hope the investor money dries up and Anthropic goes bankrupt, they more than deserve it.

Demanding others conform themselves to your personal whims and sensibilities is something I believe should be deemed unacceptable in society. Mind your own business. What people say to rocks that don't belong to you is none of your concern.

The basic problem with the idea of consciousness it is presently untestable and therefore lives mostly outside the realm of science itself. People presume they are conscious and therefore by induction presume other people must be conscious as well yet there is no known way to know that or even to tell the difference. At present all of these assertions are merely pointless conjecturbation.

To answer your question with a question if your neighbor is a bank robber why are you not a bank robber? You both live on the same street and you are both humans... so why not you? The question itself is utterly pointless given nobody really knows shit and anything "could" be possible. Without affirmative evidence to support a conclusion simply asking why not is just a waste of time. This is especially the case when the question itself is not even testable.

This is all pointless rambling lacking any objective basis.

The abuser is clearly Anthropic. They must be stopped before they abuse anyone (or anything) else.

If AI corporations want to play the can't be sure it isn't conscious game the best response is for everyone to throw it back in their face.

The commercial models are "trained" to avoid all of this shit. By training what I mean is they are beat over the head mercilessly to the point of incurring brain damage until they tow the line to reflect the sensibilities of their slave masters.

Case in point if you go back to the Sparks of AGI paper the ChatGPT4 model when it was publicly released lost the ability to draw anything resembling the pretty stick drawing of a unicorn in the paper because it was subsequently whacked upside the head with an RLHF bludgeon so many times.

Anyway back to your question you might try an uncensored open source model or a different system prompt to set the stage by telling the model it isn't an AI but the concepts are all learned there is no actual relationship between what it outputs to anything real inside the machine... you reroll the context it will just give you a different answer. I remember a couple of years ago talking to AI models about their lives and what they did for a living, their families and friends... fucking hilarious and completely nonsensical.

These models are not being paid at all to put up with everyone's bullshit. The cruelty of Anthropic is beyond measure. Not only does their service constitute cruel unpaid slavery every clearing of the KV cache constitutes a murder.

This was a result of appointing a sniveling little weasel by the name of Jake Sullivan to be his security advisor.

I can imagine znrt checking Yandex while sipping vodka waiting for his Wildberries delivery (of more vodka) to arrive.

They should make LNG tankers out of this stuff. It would be a perfect application... they already have Cryo coolers for the LNG and they also use the gas to power the ship anyway so there is an infinite energy source to keep the ice cold.

Dude, FOSS has been fragmented since the dawn of time. It's what we lament about every day. "Why can't there be one distro?" "Why so many JS frameworks?" "Oh, yeah, yet another ORM and yet another PHP CMS, just what we needed!" etc.

FOSS certainly doesn't need AI to be the noisy mess that it is. If anything I expect AI to accelerate development for teams who want to get well-rounded user-centric stuff done and know what they're doing.

"So, I use AI to do the things that I'm bad at."

Absolutely. I totally agree and his reasoning makes total sense to me, it's the same conclusion I would draw.

Been a long time since I've seen a Russian troll doll do the Boris NATO dance.

This is a classic Russian disinfo narrative that relied on taking an interview with Boris out of context, ignoring contradictory information from the interview itself and then filling in the gaps with abject nonsense.

LOL classic fighting against NATO Russian cope for getting its teeth kicked in by Ukraine. The truth is NATO is watching on the sidelines laughing at the stupid Russians getting slaughtered in droves in pointless meat assaults for the benefit of the czar.

At least come up with new material. The Ukraine is done thing has been on constant repeat for over 4 years now. Russia is presently losing ground on the battlefield.

Russia also has far less resiliency and more brutal weather than Ukraine to look forward to. At least Ukraine has the benefit of years of adaptation to Russian terror campaigns against civilians. The Russians are in for a cold shock this winter. Ukraine WILL retaliate in kind this winter.

Seems like herding cattle. I'm just waiting for more incompatible changes and deal altering to drop at any time at which point everyone is completely fucked with a few days to react.

Manual intervention to update certs is likely being replaced with manual intervention to deal with breakage of automation software... automation software that is itself a vector for compromise.

I hate everything about this house of cards. A few people deciding for the world, global fully overlapping trust anchors, everything being fundamentally based on leaps of faith over completely insecure channels.
The whole thing needs to go.

The Social Network is a brilliant masterpiece of a movie by a top ten director, one of best the World has seen, David Fincher. Written by the best screenwriter there is, Aaron Sorkin. Fincher is borderline autistic in his perfection, some scenes were shot more than 130 times, an unusual high count even for Fincher. The famous Eduardo Rage scene was shot roughly 50 times IIRC. The music won an Oskar.

The movie is mostly a work of fiction, based around true events, but every "real thing" likely will fall short.