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Buttons840 ◴[] No.43947204[source]
Interacting with a LLM (especially one running locally) can do something a therapist cannot--provide an honest interaction outside the capitalist framework. The AI has its limitations, but it is an entity just being itself doing the best it can, without expecting anything in return.
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kurthr ◴[] No.43947280[source]
The word "can" is doing a lot of work here. The idea that any of the current "open weights" LLMs are outside the capitalist framework stretches the bounds of credulity. Choose the least capitalist of: OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Alibaba.

You trust Anthropic that much?

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1. trod1234 ◴[] No.43948288{3}[source]
With respect, I think you should probably re-examine the meaning of the words you use here. You use words in a way that doesn't meet their established definition.

It would meet objective definition if you replaced 'capitalist' with 'socialist', which may have been what you meant, but that's merely an observation I make, not what you actually say.

The entire paragraph is quite contradictory, and lacks truth, and by extension it is entirely unclear what you mean, and it appears like you are confused when you use words and make statements that can't meet their definition.

You may want to clarify what you mean.

In order for it to be 'capitalist' true to its definition, you need to be able to achieve profit with it in purchasing power, but the outcomes of the entire business lifecycle resulting from this, taken as a whole, instead destroy that ability for everyone.

The companies involved didn't start on their merits seeking profit, they were funded by non-reserve debt issuance or money-printing which is the state picking winners and losers.

If they were capitalist they wouldn't have released model weights to the public. The only reason you would free a resource like that is if your goal was something not profit-driven (i.e. contagion towards chaos to justify control or succinctly totalism).

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2. tomhow ◴[] No.44000614[source]
> Please, either stop using that low parameter LLM, go for the standup gig, or get treatment.

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