Neither are the billionaires and their deputies who both own and run all the megacorps.

99% of the current AI push is entirely anti-hacker ethos. It is a race to consolidate control of the world's computing and its economic surplus to ~5 organizations.

A few people do interesting stuff on the edges of this, but the rest of the work in it is anathema to hacker values.

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arbol 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The client ai push has also enabled people to run local llama models and build products without those companies. Presumably there'll be more of this to come

	▲	vkou 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's the 1%. It's the hair on the back of the elephant. Their capabilities will fall further and further behind models that need a billion dollars to train, and a supercomputer to run. You're making a faustian bargain.