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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

There is always an urge to moralize technology, for some reason. The technology itself is not evil, in fact I really like AI a lot, and I couldn't imagine my life without it. Frankly, I do use it in ways that help me cope with ADHD so maybe NaNoWriMo is based (IDK what that company is, what they do, and if they suck ass which being a tech company they likely do).

However the externalities of how AI has been used is awful. First of all, no data center should be allowed to be built without the company also building 2X the energy production in renewables. Then, there is the tech industries general exploitation of labor, and of course the eventuality that the tech will all be used to enforce fascim and genocide (edit: and of course stealing art for training data, which should not be legal. AI companies should be buying the rights to art or employing artists just the same as they pay trainers to produce other training data) and...I hate the industry, but still love the technology.

Hopefully I can learn how to run my own LLM locally, but for now I am a heavy user of the OpenAI API.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I couldn't imagine my life without it.

I don't mean this as a dunk, but I am inacapable of thinking how you couldn't imagine life without a technology that most people (presumably including you) could only start using less than 5 years ago. That's not very long ago.

Hopefully I can learn how to run my own LLM locally, but for now I am a heavy user of the OpenAI API.

You could try out OLlama.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I dont have anything capable unfortunately. I could use a cloud solution, but right now im just trusting openAI that they dont store data from their API.

I guess i just habitually use it. I dont know, i guess what i mean is if it disappeared i would miss it