Got to jam with a group today with the #Gretsch and it's got some neat tricks to it. It has some particular sweet spots with rhythm distortion. I can see now why this was popular with some grunge era guitarists. A little bolder and easier to tame than a Strat and not as overruling as a Les Paul.
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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
FYI - #llama is NOT#opensource. 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.
There was some stuff I wasn't sure how to sanely do with #Ansible and thought I might have to resort to a #Perl script and the AI helped me get out of the weeds with the playbook.