So…. not a legitimate business then.

This shit is why end to end encryption is so important.

All platforms, no matter how trustworthy, can be corrupted. No e2e, no privacy.

It’s pretty crazy to watch enshittification play out in real time.

Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?

These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.

We all know the answer - too damn much.

There’s an aphorism, “give me 10 engineers and I’ll build it in a year, give me a hundred engineers and I can get that down to just five years.”

The count of engineers means absolutely nothing.

This can’t be real?

First of all it’s almost certainly torture and human rights violations.

Secondly, never mind freedom of speech - now you can’t even have your thoughts to yourself.

Fuck. That.

Oh man, I remember so many people defended 8GB since the M1 first came out (and since).

I always argued it would significantly reduce the lifetimes of these machines if you bought one, not just because you’d be swapping a lot more on the (soldered in BTW) ssd, but because after a few years of updates it would become unbearably slow, or hardware would fail, or both.

Didn’t stop people constantly “tHe aRchITecTuRE iS cOmPlETelY diFFeRenT!!!”

Sure it’s different, but it’s still just a computer. A technical person can still look at the spec sheet and calculate effective performance accounting for bus widths etc.

Disclosure: I bought a top spec 16GB M1 Mac Air on launch and have been extremely happy with it - it’s still going strong.

Lots of tech people who don’t know or care about the r1 device are going to get a jumpscare from this post 😁

Why does my open source browser need proprietary SaaS products stuffed into it?

Isn’t this what extensions are for?

Seconding this. Why not allow people to run llama3 or other open source models?

The real problem is robots.txt is an honour system in the first place - It’s never been a defence against bad (or even simply poor faith) actors.