Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes: > One of my unsettling concerns that I have not yet heard mentioned is... > who controls the models?
indeed, and this is why i don't care for “open source” models/weights. this is a ripe ground for all kinds of almost completely invisible manipulation, and it's only just begun to be explored. expect the pace of exploration to pick up dramatically as more and more people become dependent on them for one reason or another. since training is so expensive and complex, it is going to be outside the realms of free software and volunteer service to the commons possibly forever. so we are going to be reliant on known bad actors to produce good output > When I swing a hammer, I expect that the limits of my hand-eye > coordination, prior practice and skill be the factors determining how > successful I am at driving a nail... not the manufacturer of the hammer > who happens to be able to decide which nails I am allowed to hit > successfully, let alone if I hit my own thumb. good news! if you yell at your hammer enough and in the right way you might be allowed to hit those nails. nothing we can do about the thumb, though, that's just how these machines work. -bjc
