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@sun

it's becoming apparent that we have like 5 classes of LLM haters

- the environmental fearmongering types who can't math

- the people who mistakenly think copyright is good for society and innovation and believe all output is somehow a stolen string of code

- the developers who are really into the compsci side and want all code to be perfect and concise (commendable, but unrealistic; these are the folks who should live in the university/research sector)

- the autistics who like the "puzzle" of chasing errors, diving into a debugger for hours on end and somehow derive joy from this

- the autistics who want to build a community around every git repo because their only friends are on the internet

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@feld @sun@shitposter.world
I'm in the camp of "who's going to pay for all this shit if all the work is being done by robots owned by 5 people?"

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@RandomDamage the research is settled, the writing is on the wall -- these AI companies are going to crumble because their inference engines are based on a fundamentally flawed design that requires waste of energy and high resource usage. But they can't change course because it will break the circular investment schemes where they pump money back and forth into each other. When Nvidia's valuation massively drops because it's clear there isn't really that high of a demand for GPUs, the house of cards falls.

Even Nvidia can't implement the novel methods of their own research papers without harming their own investors who need the GPU demand to be sky high

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@feld

That makes it sound like the real business model is more of a "smash and grab"

Do enough to pull in as much money as you can get, then bail with as much as you can carry when the failures become obvious to the investors

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johnny peligro

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@feld @RandomDamage and funnily enough this doesn't mean AI goes away, it just means it'll be forced to evolve, and us, selfhosters, will, as always, keep fucking winning.