Comment by mmaunder | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mmaunder | Hacker News Reader

I think the release of closed source models right now is a net negative and worth opposing. Right now we’re building a future where the very wealthy and powerful will control access to AI on ethical grounds, while they have uncensored access to the latest and most powerful models. Innovation, high frequency trading, medical breakthroughs, creative output - all of these and more will be enhanced by AI, and you’ll be eating leftovers and paying a fortune for them, wondering why you can’t keep up - unless we enable a vibrant open source ecosystem, and force big tech to release models into that ecosystem.

Support open source models by celebrating their release and pressuring companies to release them, and oppose closed source AI or face a very bleak future for you and your descendants.

You may be having fun with “Open” AI’s API today, but you’re supporting and celebrating the collapse of society into megacap AI elites and a majority paying for metered access to old technology.

A utopian future would be FOSS LLMs that are private and run locally. The opposite of one where models are public, proprietary - running on your data and owned by just a few large entities.

I mean sure.. but imagine if this were open sourced as is. This is new tech that has barely had time to mature. The possibilities for abuse are endless. I for one am happy that this model isn't being open sourced. This is an excellent way for people to generate all kinds of disturbing and fake audio clips.

Same logic could be applied to Linux by Microsoft in the 90s. In fact, the “It’s for your safety” has been applied to some of the worst things humans have perpetrated including apartheid (which I lived through) and the holocaust. And it’s always those that claim to keep us safe doing the worst. And it continues with perceived dangers providing pretext and moral authority to do bad things.

"If we were to release our kettle and chickens, they would go extinct within a few years."

"I just hold on to all the money, 'cause bitches can't be trusted with it. We pool all the kissing money together, see? But if you wanna buy anything, you just talk to the bottom bitch, and then the bottom bitch talks to me.

Do you know what I am saying?"

Choose OSS, or put that mouth to work on someone's AI API.

Uh yeah, who cares? Give an example of something this audio generator could make that is dangerous.

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