Comment on Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP senator’s complaint
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s possible a member of Blackburn’s staff or a supporter went looking for a libelous hallucination in Google’s models.
Good to see Ars with some common sense here.
FYI Gemma (3) is Google’s open weights release, for local running and finetuning. It’s pretty neat (especially the QAT version), but also old and small; there’s basically no reason anyone would pick it over Gemini 2.5 in Google’s dev web app, except for esoteric dev testing. It’s not fast, it doesn’t much, it’s not great with tooling (like web referencing), its literal purpose is local stuff squeezed onto desktop PCs or cheap GPUs.
…Hence this basically impacts no-one.
The worst risk is that Google may flinch and neuter future Gemma/Gemini over this, lest some other MAGA screams bloody murder over nothing.
filister@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The future is very small models trained to work in a certain domain and able to run on devices.
Huge foundational models are nice and everything, but they are simply too heavy and expensive to run.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah. You are preaching to the choir here.
…Still though, I just meant there’s no reason to use Gemma 3 27B (or 12? Whatever they used) unaugmented in AI Studio.