"On the acceptance of GenAI"https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/
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"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/@tante entirely too vague; you'd be better off explaining what "big tech's vision for the world" is, and how they aid ICE and the IDF, and the U.S. military, and their tech is involved in every recent atrocity, like killing thousands of Iranians, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine...these bullet points sugar coat reality too much
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@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante no. copyright law is bullshit. the problem is power. like in every situation. poor people stealing from the rich: cool. rich people stealing from the poor: fucked.
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@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante I think most running an adblocker is doing so to block data brokers, not the ad itself. Privacy is as much part of the equation here as the actual ad.
@mrbase @buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante and considering organizations like ICE are using ads to install spyware on people's phones now, adblockers are absolutely necessary for everyone. i am actually mad at anyone who's not using an adblocker.
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"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/@tante I'd probably add ones for - "I accept GenAI may scramble my mind and induce psychosis"
- "I accept that I am accepting the misinformation and disinformation produced by these tools"
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"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/@tante this implies that there are only US American AI companies. There are also EU AI companies which are arguably better.
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"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/@tante good god the replies. A lot of people holding their hands tightly over their eyes.
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AI in the modern age is not going away. You shouldn't be shamed for using it, and at this point you should expect it.
Even when the bubble goes pop we are still going to have AI in some form. AI is a useful tool for many people, and it's great when you self host it.
Also, most things AI "steals" isn't really stealing if it's free and public on the internet.
Only thing I really can agree with is environment impacts. At this point though we muck up the environment so much with plastics, overusage of gas, mass deforestation, etc that I don't know how big of an impact that really has. Ideally we would use green forms of energy for everything, and new tech innovation would reduce the absurd amounts of power required to run these supercomputers. Hopefully the ARM architecture is that light in the dark.
@Synthyx@vivaldi.net @tante@tldr.nettime.org
Also, most things AI “steals” isn’t really stealing if it’s free and public on the internet.
That’s not even remotely how copyright works
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@tante good god the replies. A lot of people holding their hands tightly over their eyes.
@smilingdemon yeah. I mean sure, you can ignore a lot of facts to keep doing what you are already doing but don't try to claim your being ethical or anything.
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@crazyeddie @tante GenAI as in Generative AI, not Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
@orange_lux both are arbitrary marketing terms
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@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante no. copyright law is bullshit. the problem is power. like in every situation. poor people stealing from the rich: cool. rich people stealing from the poor: fucked.
@3Fingers @ai6yr @tante I definitely got that vibe already, that many on Mastodon, and to a lesser extent Bluesky, approach AI as a class issue.
Seems strange, both because it's what AI has been building towards for the last 70 years. No surprises here that the first command would be "ok, read everything."
But also because Moore's law applies. All of this will be local and distributed over time.
We're actually quite lucky that there are no binding patents or copyrights on AI.
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@3Fingers @ai6yr @tante I definitely got that vibe already, that many on Mastodon, and to a lesser extent Bluesky, approach AI as a class issue.
Seems strange, both because it's what AI has been building towards for the last 70 years. No surprises here that the first command would be "ok, read everything."
But also because Moore's law applies. All of this will be local and distributed over time.
We're actually quite lucky that there are no binding patents or copyrights on AI.
@buckfiftyseven @ai6yr @tante all technology benefits the rich over the poor. that's just an unavoidable universal fact. AI is currently destroying the world by empowering the U.S. military and various billionaire fascists who are oppressing all of us.
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@orange_lux both are arbitrary marketing terms
@downey @crazyeddie @tante everything is an arbitrary marketing term
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@buckfiftyseven @jrconlin @tante Aww, poor AI influencer!
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@buckfiftyseven @jrconlin @tante Aww, poor AI influencer!
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"On the acceptance of GenAI"
https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/@tante [ ] I accept that the continuing scraping of the internet is a strain on service providers, even ones that don’t want to participate
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And yes, that is a big issue with the SaaS token vendors. Claude, OpenAI, MS, and the rest do use whatever user data they can get. I am not arguing their horrific behavior.
I'm talking about locally running Qwen, or Deepseek, or other FLOSS models.
That local LLM running on my machine only sees and uses data I provide. And a control-c in the relevant console window kills the LLM.
What folks do not realize is this is #Leibniz's ultimate dream, of being able to do #calculus with words, sentences, and more. He tried to do single word-vectors, but even that had to wait for Word2Vec in 2012.
@Epic_Null @crankylinuxuser @tante “local” models are as reliant on illegal data acquisition, because they depend on the larger mainstream models to reach any level of tolerable performance. Whether it’s for training, fine tuning, distillation, or another method, that dependency means anything that goes into the development of the nonlocal model is also a requirement for the development of the local versions.
Deepseek and Qwen are no exception.
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@crankylinuxuser FLOSS Models (which are only freeware) fulfill most of those boxes. Trained on stolen data, massaged by people in global majority countries, trained in environmentally harmful data centers, outsourcing skills to the freeware product a company dumped on me, using a tool that is imbued and trained for how big tech wants to see the world, and effort could have gone to something meaningful. So yeah nope.
@tante @crankylinuxuser
And what if i train my own model in my own computer powered by solar with my own data? -
I know, right? How will Mastodon ever be profitable and return positive value for it's shareholders.
( Sorry, I promise I'll stop laughing soon. )
