Addiction being enabled is a big thing but AI stocks are dropping and the companies are getting nervous people will stop investing or -- worse for them and better for the planet -- start selling it all off.

Combined with the fact that China's also catching up with its open source AI (no i dont want to debate whether or not it actually is or if china is 'safe'; particularly not with anyone from the USA as i am canadian) and also everyone protesting against the giant data centres AND the UK giving up on digital IDs?

yeah. they're trying to get people hooked again.

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graemep 2 days ago | parent [-]

The thing you are skipping over there is not whether China is safe, but whether open weights are open source.

	▲	Diogenesian 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I agree that you're being a bit pedantic, but it is a real loss to our language that these models are described as "open source." If you want to use an LLM then open-weight is fantastic. If you want to understand an LLM then it's useless: at the very least you need the pretraining data. Open-weight is free beer without the freedom. But LLMs are evil by construction and using them makes people stupider, so I suppose "free beer [moderately cursed]" is appropriate.
	▲	lardosaurusrex 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm not skipping over anything because I didn't think to mention it my dude, gal and/or pal.