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Oh boy, did that rub everyone the wrong way.
Either way, you could have your own LLM agent and run it locally. That way your recommendations wouldn’t be steered towards greatest quarterly revenue. Instead, it would be something that actually serves your purposes.
Or even better, don’t be lazy and curate your own interests.
My high school motto was “Faber Quisque Fortunae” (each man creates their own destiny). That means that You need to take responsibility for your own actions and decisions. You don’t outsource living.
Absolutely. That’s the preferred way. Be active and put in the effort.
Ignoring everything else that wouldn't work. Your local llm instance, to recommend you new movies, would have to scour the internet to summarize information about them.
Boom, thats the vector of it getting steered towards greatest quarterly revenue.
Yeah that’s true. Search results, movie reviews and blogs definitely can be used to steer it in any direction. You just need to keep the LLM on a very short leash and keep a close eye on its diet. Takes some effort to do this properly.