You could say the same about drugs...
RalfWausE
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The essence of the story: Meeting people in person in the real world always is better than looking for someone special on some scammy dating site...
Why should we need "equal power" to some hypothetical "cloud pc"? We did video cutting, 3D rendering, webbrowsing, videochatting and so on in the late 90s with PCs whose CPU speeds where measured in Mhz not Ghz... with the PCs build in the last ~15 years i really, really see no danger of running out of useable devices within my lifetime (i am slightly over 40 now).
If there will be some time in the future when its only possible to get "meaningful employment" or "make appointments" using some cloud based shitstain i will happily spend my last days doing my part in helping to burn down this dystopic society.
He can do what he wants, he is a free person and has every right to do so.
But i - as an equally free person (albeit with much, much much less wealth) - will never use voluntarily software that is generated by such an abomination and will not stop to advocate against it.
Let me use this opportunity to point towards NetBSD which has a clear "No LLM" clause in its commit guidelines
Oh... right...
Yourself and the code you read and understand. So as long as you don't use a system where this is possible (say 9Front and the like) you trust nothing and nobody, do careful backups and don't go on a installation spree.
If they are at the frontlines I guess they are at war. Well... how goes the old saying: "All fair in love and war"
My computer, my rules... and if I want a piece of software out it will move out.
What about the following take: LLMs are an abomination that consumes enormous masses of resources for... well... really nothing besides being a tool to further enshittify the Internet and the world as a whole, being a tool for making it easy creating ever more divisive content (not to mention the special content Grok is now known for), killing jobs and replacing genuine human creativity by a cheap, warped imitation thereof.
My opinion is: Everybody who uses or promotes this technology is accomplice in making the world a worse place.
What does it say about me if I don't get the drama around the whole incest thing? As long as all involved parties are consenting... who gives a shit?
On the other hand it would really upset me and let me question my parenting if I found out that my son voluntarily sends genetics material to some questionable company...
I am 43 and all I need is a couple of glasses of whiskey...
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Bill doesn't gave a shit either about me religiously repeating that in a world without walls nobody did need Gates or Windows... but it felt better reiterating this mantra.