It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.

I’m not an AI techie and I’m not well educated on LLMs/AI in general. The issue I’m having is the dichotomy between how people talk about it. I’ve heard completely opposite ends of the spectrum. From AI is quickly becoming advanced enough to threaten human society, all the way to its a glorified dictionary/search engine that can’t really do much of anything. I know Lemmy has a steep anti-AI slant. But, can someone talk about this in a way I can wrap my head around why the divide seems so big?

  • mkwt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    What’s going to happen is:

    • The big players know that the token pricing crisis is coming up.
    • When the price increases hit, regular users are going to scramble for alternatives.
    • Local models will be an attractive alternative for many users. The cost of hardware and energy will constrain local model power, but many will be willing to live with it.
    • So these would-be cartel members want to hit the local and open weight models with the “safety” card. Otherwise they might be holding the bag on all of those data centers.

    “You see, it’s just too dangerous to humanity to experiment with AI at home. You need to use a safe provider like Open AI.”

    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      eventually someone’s just gonna sell cloud computing at a competitive price through a free model and obliterate anthropic and openai. it’ll be like ISP, AOL was the hottest company in the world at one point with a “locked down ecosystem” and now it’s just a tiny brand with a tiny but loyal customer base of senior citizens.

      • Ostfriesentee@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        36 minutes ago

        Isn’t that what Mistral is kinda pivoting towards? I think they now also host third-party models. That’s essentially providing cloud computing for open-source models. Not entirely sure.