Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

• frankring@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not sure if you’re anti-AI or something, but I intend to use chatbots. To me, it is now like this: local > claude > everything else

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  • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If they weren’t guzzling the worlds water supply, and using the electricity of a small nation, and didn’t steal small creators works, and weren’t hijacking the worlds supply of RAM, and wasn’t causing a bubble that will wreak havoc on the global economy, and it wasn’t causing people to go into psychosis by encouraging delusional thoughts, than i probably wouldn’t be against it.

    Other than those issues it seems fine, but until those are addressed, I’m pretty anti-ai

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you for your well constructed sarcastic comment, brother. It is astonishing how can some people can still praise AI companies publicly without feeling any shame.

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    • frankring@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Those are very fair concerns. That’s also why I’m prioritizing local open source AI over big centralized datacenters.

      • It doesn’t need water.
      • It is private and doesn’t collect data.
      • I pay my own electricity bills.
      • Smaller models tend to me more efficient for simple tasks.
      • I use RAM and hardware that I already owned before the AI bubble.
      • I’m smart enough to understand that AI isn’t perfect and can be delusional.

      While AI is still AI, it does make me feel better.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s basically always been the case anyway, except for Gemini for long context, perhaps.

    And, of couse, prioritize open models over API. It’s:

    Open training models > open weights models > restrictively licensed open models > open weights models over API > Claude/Gemini > don’t bother with OpenAI/Grok

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