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vwbusguy

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Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

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bagder, to random
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Remember to take the user survey 2024 - if you can spare a few minutes.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/05/14/curl-user-survey-2024/

vwbusguy,
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@bagder Got mine in! Thanks again for the excellent toolset!

vwbusguy, to random
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The state of LLM right now is more or less that of a corporate-sanctioned Napster that hasn't (yet) been gutted by litigation. I'm curious to see what kind of more mainstream torrent/Spotify type thing emerges from this after the hype bubble inevitably pops. In the meantime, I suggest not betting the bank on any one major vendor. Copilot, ChatGPT, Llama, etc could all be one good lawsuit away from shutting down. Factor that into the business risk of adoption.

vwbusguy,
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Truly open source models trained on public domain or fully owned data require more up front investment but also carry less foreseeable risk than other options. To that end, ARM hardware is momentarily cheap at a time where very little of anything is cheap, so buying some Ampere boxes and having it scrape your own website and data is a pretty good proposition. Whatever LLM service, don't expect it to reliably think or make decisions for you.

vwbusguy,
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@1dalm Your assertion doesn't make much sense to be. Microsoft Copilot, in its various flavors, is based on OpenAI GPT. Github Copilot also sourced from copy-left sources into a fully proprietary service. It's a matter of time before that eventually plays out in court.

Meta actively markets Llama as open source when it categorically isn't at all by its license terms. It unambiguously doesn't meet OSD.

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@remanded I'm not equating Napster with Spotify. Napster was a culturally impactful tool that disrupted a highly litigious industry that was charging $20 for a CD. Napster got sued to death, but eventually paved the way for streaming services and bit torrent technology.

LLM services are coming at a time where search engines and websites are clustered with ads and copy edited ad nauseum. While on potentially legally dubious grounds, I'm interested to see the next iteration of things.

vwbusguy,
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@1dalm

https://www.slashgear.com/1552023/why-congress-banned-microsoft-copilot-ai/

https://www.finnegan.com/en/insights/articles/insights-from-the-pending-copilot-class-action-lawsuit.html

They're also facing various lawsuits on both sides of the pond, both for copyright abuse and that they're arguably de facto running OpenAI by proxy.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/01/ftc-launches-inquiry-generative-ai-investments-partnerships

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsofts-openai-partnership-could-face-eu-antitrust-probe-sources-say-2024-04-18/

vwbusguy, to random
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The problem with the is that there are a whole lot of people who aren't very discerning, critical thinkers.

vwbusguy, to random
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With all the AI talks, debates, and such this week, I think I'm overdue for a watch of the original Ghost in the Shell.

vwbusguy, to RedHat
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TIL that offers a generative AI service for playbooks via .

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/ansible/ansible-lightspeed

vwbusguy,
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@maxamillion @rfc2549 Considering the default license for galaxy stuff is Apache, an opt-out was more than they legally needed to offer.

vwbusguy,
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@maxamillion @rfc2549 This is a significant distinction. Copilot is expressly proprietary. If all of these code generating models were GPLv3 and included clear license attribution, there would be much less ambiguity and controversy around them.

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@maxamillion @rfc2549 And there is a valid point that some prominent companies in the space are using data inappropriately to do inappropriate things and almost certainly in reckless violation of copyrights.

The tech definitely got ahead of the courts on this one.

That said, there are legit ways to train and use AI. I've been in attending a symposium on this stuff all week and am about to go watch an ethics panel discussion on this right now, FWIW.

vwbusguy,
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@rfc2549 @maxamillion It is being recorded, but I don't know the extent to what will be made public, since it is a UC Symposium.

https://ccs.ucsb.edu/events/ai-community-practice-cop-spring-symposium-2024

YvanDaSilva, to random
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How many of you wanted to start a company just to try to do better than what you are experiencing?

vwbusguy,
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@vathpela @YvanDaSilva I don't mind being a boss, but otherwise I'm with you - I've done it once before (I owned a coffee shop) and the stress and overhead of owning a business quickly and utterly consumes your entire life.

vwbusguy, to opensource
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FYI - is NOT . The license is categorically not open source. Among other things, the llama 2 and 3 licenses explicitly violate Field of Endeavor.

I see all sorts of blogs and marketing materials claiming things are "open source" because they used llama somewhere. Please do not take these claims at face value.

vwbusguy,
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This isn't specific to #Llama either, but other AI models listed on the #Meta page as "open-source".

For example, seamless carries a non-commerce clause.

https://github.com/facebookresearch/seamless_communication/blob/main/LICENSE

#opensource

vwbusguy, to random
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Current state of internet forums:

Spammers using AI to get around the spam filter AIs that forums delegated moderation to.

vwbusguy, to linux
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#SUSECON is scheduled during #Juneteenth this year, which is unfortunate. I know it's not a German holiday, but I imagine it will impact participation from Americans.

#SUSE #Linux

vwbusguy, to random
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Overheard recently:

"Do you ever feel guilty about plagiarism for using generative AI?"

"Not at all. The truth is we've been plagiarizing all along. Every JD we've ever posted started as a copy and paste from a similar job posting elsewhere. Every policy was based on another, likewise."

🤔

vwbusguy, to linux
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I wonder if has some kind of minimal and/or way to run x86 applications on an host, similar to Rosetta for MacOS or the similar WIP Microsoft compatibility.

vwbusguy, to random
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I'm offended that I should be asked to verify my 2FA credentials before purchasing HomeStarRunner merchandise. Have the data scrapers not learned anything about me to not know that this is entirely on brand?

vwbusguy, to random
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Sometimes I still can't believe that I actually own a PRS. My goodness this guitar is amazing!

vwbusguy, to random
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I just had an AI help me write some necessarily regex heavy stuff and I'm not complaining about that.

vwbusguy,
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There was some stuff I wasn't sure how to sanely do with and thought I might have to resort to a script and the AI helped me get out of the weeds with the playbook.

vwbusguy,
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On this note - if you're thinking about implementing some novel, innovative new config file syntax for your fancy enterprise program, please don't. 😭

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