Comment on Can I ethically use LLMs?
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If you mean from an energy/climate/water/resource consumption perspective, then no. But of you’re looking at it from a labor perspective, then also no. From a copyrights perspective? Nope as well. Okay, but surely from a correctness perspective? Very clear no. Okay, but there’s still the aspect of showing recipients respect and not wasting their time by giving them something to read/view/process that you didn’t care to write/think through yourself in the first place? Well, you guessed it, hard no as well.
The things that AI was made for are:
I’m fairly certain blockchain GPUs have very different requirements than those used for ML, especially not LLMs. In particular they don’t need anywhere as much VRAM and generally don’t require floating point math, nor do they need features like tensor cores. Those “blockchain GPUs” likely didn’t turn into ML GPUs.
ML has been around for a long time. People have been using GPUs in ML since AlexNet in 2012, not just after blockchain hype started to die down.
nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
copyright is immoral
trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yes, because private property is theft. But unequal enforcement of copyright law is worse. Right now, LLMs are just lying machines trained on pirated data and the companies that run them are acting with impunity for doing something a normal person would get put in jail for.
Copyright is immoral, but as long as it exists, the laws should be extra strict on companies that steal others’ works.