I’m finding most people have a quiet discomfort with the direction most things are headed today, but are resigned to just letting it happen.
We must not do this! We must build! 🛠️
The single best “use case” of LLM’s is mass surveillance and manipulation on a scale like we’ve never seen before. A personalized AI agent that sees and hears 100% of what you do and “helps” you throughout the day is the perfect way to control your every thought and action.
Open source may help a little, but think about how much big tech and state actors will want to influence those models. Either by injecting malicious code via supply chain attack, or poisoning the data sets used to train them.
Beyond that, I personally think LLMs are mediocre productivity tools.
Absolutely. The repo of that OSS project will be a massive target for malicious code that does this in a very sly way.
On top of that, if you have this running and someone gets access to your machine, it’s game over. They’ll have literally everything you do.
You need specific hardware, so it won’t affect many up front. Still complete lunacy though.
So true. And they want to trap people further with chat bots and AI girlfriends.
GO OUTSIDE PEOPLE!
I thought this was a great article. The obsession of putting AI into every facet of life, particularly as an all seeing, all knowing personal assistant, is very disturbing to me. Human relationships and experiences will always be unbeaten.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bloodinthemachine/p/why-is-sam-altman-so-obsessed-with
I’ll definitely do that! I’ll get back to you with some feedback for sure
Worse, they also put it in our food while taking subsidies from the govt
I absolutely love this idea. I’ve been very focused on supporting local businesses lately and thinking about how to turn the tides back in their favor in the digital realm. I’m not a web developer by trade, but my current role has me working with web stuff a ton. If you start building this, I’d love to contribute.
Just had this conversation with my wife last night
We’re on the precipice of building a society so wealthy, our ancestors would never believe it’s possible.
Going to check him out. Being censored is essentially signal now 😂
I really wish this account would fuck off
On the bitcoin store side, they still show out of stock. Hoping to buy with some bitcoin 😁
Cold card all day
Fiat incentivizes short term thinking which means businesses need to be focused on growth at all costs. The fastest way to grow your user base is to make the product free and sell ads. This creates as little friction as possible to get users on your site.
If you are operating on a sound money standard, you can prioritize differently. Because your money isn’t losing value every day, there isn’t an urgent need to grow your user base as quickly. Obviously, some will still choose to go with ads, but it opens up more possibilities for operating your business differently and focusing on delivering something users find valuable enough to pay for more than once.
I guess the big part I disagree with is that capitalism is focused on “hoarding” capital. It’s quite the opposite in fiat world because hoarding dollars means you’re losing purchasing power, so if you’re a business, you need to deploy those dollars as fast as possible. Where most tech companies spend is by fueling more growth via engineering/sales hires, exasperating the problem, and the need for more of your attention.
So yes, sound money standard might equal more “hoarding” but that would actually be better because you’d likely be focused on sustainable growth since your money isn’t melting away.
Nahhh. This is fiat games, plain and simple. If we had sound money, we’d be focused on building things that enrich peoples lives more and not these short term games.