Make noise.

Enough people in my town gave negative comment to the board of supervisors that they rejected Flock cameras.

If you're referring to the OpenAI hack of Hugging face, watch this video from Dave's Garage about the details behind how and why it happened. It's really much more interesting than what's been covered by the news.

Obviously, I agree.

My other question, is how long will they be able to get away with this sort of thing, before customers decide the risk of disclosing your data to these external AI firms, is greater than the cost of building the capacity to run your own models in-house.

I don't use LLM, generally. But I was messing around and got some older models running on my laptop last night. Nothing special, no idea what I would use them for (couldn't generate a paragraph of text before clearing losing all coherence, because these were small old models running on 5 year old hardware). Supposedly Mac Studios and Mac minis are selling like hotcakes because hobbyists want to run local models. How long before the Venn Diagram for "can be run locally" and "capable enough model" overlaps for most use cases, making the risk of data exfiltration by these firms not worth the risk?

Lot of words to say this kind of thing may accelerate the bubble bursting.

How many of the other miraculous math solutions attributed to LLMs recently were similarly snooped from academics who bowed to pressure to stay silent on the matter?

They should let kids choose their own books to read. If I hadn't discovered the sci-fi aisle at the library on my own, Of Mice and Men in 12th grade would have been the last book I ever read. Kids should learn that reading is fun when they're not doing it for a grade.

I think the difference is, if anyone could have seen the horse limping, its okay. If you're the vet treating the sprained ankle behind closed doors, now it's material non-public information.

The responses here are entirely predictable, but it's a legitimate concern. If China can shut off my router, that's one thing. If they can turn off the power grid, that's a different situation. It would be foolish to assume they and other countries are not at least trying to have that capability. I think having an audit of foreign made grid equipment is a good thing.

My brother died of brain cancer on the side of his head that he held his phone. Maybe there's more to this.

While they're making it sound philanthropic, they're going to have to fill on a lot of werlands to build Starbase.2. They're required by federal law to either build and maintain an equal amount of new wetlands or purchase federal wetlands offset credits for an absurd amount of money.

I used duckduckgo for a while. I switched to Kagi last year. Not everyone is willing to pay, up front, for search. But if you do, the experience is even better, because there are no ads to watch out for at all. Everything is search results.

Who cares? 21 km across is pretty big. At the scale that humans will ever realistically be able to build anything on the moon, we probably wouldn't even know the other country was there at all. No country is ever going to colonize the moon, or Mars. Or anywhere else. The most inhospitable place on Earth is better than everywhere else in the solar system, never mind the logistics.

I mean, the science is cool, but that's all it's ever going to be.

Except that non-ai search engines still work, whereas Google does not, unless you manually step in to tell it what to do. Still a reversion. And not an unavoidable one

There was no republican primary in my state, so I didn't get a choice.

The reason Google rose to dominance is that their algorithm accounted for trustworthiness. You didnâ(TM)t need to know the site that had your answer, Google knew it, and ranked it at the top of your results. This is basically asking you to manually do what Google historically did automatically, which is to vet websites that might contain answers to your queries. All so that they can inject LLMs into a process that does not need them. Yet one more reason Iâ(TM)m glad I ditched Google.