Office space meme:

“If y’all could stop calling an LLM “open source” just because they published the weights… that would be great.”

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    Ok. How does that apply to DeepSeek?

    Your anti-AI talking points are so embedded with anti-Big Tech arguments, that now you can’t pivot when it’s a publicly available, communist developed, energy efficient AI.

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      But also, you were talking about Nvidia in your comment I responded to, not Deepseek, so your rebuttal is non sequitur…

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        LoL. Love when bots can’t follow the conversation, and accidentally out themselves.

        I guess this one’s not up-to-date on Nvidia’s stock plunge following the DeepSeek release. Ironically, maybe the bots will be able to work out conversation context like this soon.

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          Hm. I speak like a bot, do I? Maybe I am autistic after all.

          I am aware, my boyfriend and I have already had this conversation, but I guess he’s not on Lemmy, so you can’t ask him.

          Yes, DeepSeek caused a drop in the stock price, but you were saying that believing that LLM’s are over-hyped would lead to having insider knowledge and could give us an advantage in the stock market. Particularly with their already tanked stock. However, the stock market fluctuates based on hype, not value, and will do whatever the fuck it pleases, so the only way to have insider knowledge is by being on a board who controls the price or by managing to dump hype into the system. That is not something a lot of people have the power to do individually.

          But since you think I’m a bot and I have no way to disprove that thanks to what the world is now, I bid you adieu. I hope you’re having a good one. And stop antagonizing people for talking differently, please.

          Edit: I took a look at your recent comment history, and you do come off as trying to troll and be disingenuous. If you want to have a less inflammatory conversation, you can DM me, but I do recommend you tone it down. You’re not helping anyone with how you’re approaching this, buddy.

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          China is a state-capitalist, bourgeois society. They’re not a communist society.

          Also: LLMs aren’t energy efficient.

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            I don’t think you know why any of those words mean. Just regurgitating propaganda.

            Communism is defined by worker control of the means of production, and allocating the profits to help the people who need it. That’s how they lifted 800 million people out of poverty, instead of just making a handful of people obscenely wealthy. Simply participating in markets does not make a country capitalist.

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              Just regurgitating propaganda.

              No u.

              Communism is defined by worker control of the means of production

              No, that’s socialism. Communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society.

              Also, the workers in China aren’t in control of the means of production. The bureaucrats and capitalists are.

              That’s how they lifted 800 million people out of poverty

              While I applaud the better living standards: I see no contradiction to capitalism. Marx himself wrote:

              The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature’s forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?

              Simply participating in markets does not make a country capitalist

              No, but state ownership of the means of production makes a country state capitalist.

              Let’s come back to your initial point: you accused me of dismissing an LLM, because it is “communist”. Comrade, I’m an anarcho-communist. I dislike all the hypetrain riding, water gobbling sharlatans in the current so-called “AI” bubble: Altman, Pashaj (don’t know how to write him), Zuckerberg and Musk. I like it if the market get disrupted, but I don’t like it if the AI trend continues to wreak havoc on nature.

              Btw: how is deepseek “energy efficient”?

              And also: All that has squat to do with open source or not.

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      Actually no. As someone who prefers academic work, I very heavily prefer Deepseek to OpenAI. But neither are open. They have open weights and open source interpreters, but datasets need to be documented. If it’s not reproducible, it’s not open source. At least in my eyes. And without training data, or details on how to collect it, it isn’t reproducible.

      You’re right. I don’t like big tech. I want to do research without being accused of trying to destroy the world again.

      And how is Deepseek over-hyped? It’s an LLM. LLM’s cannot reason, but they’re very good at producing statistically likely language generation which can sound like its training data enough to gaslight, but not actually develop. They’re great tools, but the application is wrong. Multi domain systems that use expert systems with LLM front ends to provide easy to interpret results is a much better way to do things, and Deepseek may help people creating expert systems (whether AI or not) make better front ends. This is in fact huge. But it’s not the silver bullet tech bros and popsci mags think it is.