As for local models if you want to maintain that DSv4.1, GLM-5.3-f, M-3.1, or ther ilk are not near frontier-level. Then, I guess you are allowed to be wrong.

lol

Yes, because that has worked so well in the past for alcohol, cannabis, homosexuality, or nuclear proliferation.

A list of examples where prohibition didn’t work is quite far from an argument that it never works, Plato. Leaded gasoline, CFCs, asbestos, DDT, should I go on?

This class of models is already perfectly capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in software, and is within spitting distance of the frontier.

If you think frontier models are close to Qwen running on your 5090, you’re completely devoid of any knowledge on the subject and therefore this discussion becomes meaningless.

What should the good guys do?

Legislate AI away, except for the already existing open models that run on consumer-grade GPUs and are therefore orders of magnitude weaker and can’t be used to break down any systems.

Or penalize heavily any company developing a model that is subsequently used to invade a system, stopping this madness of separating the models from the operators of said models.

A plane’s wings are burning and it’s heading towards a mountain, opposite way to the nearest airport. Need a time machine to figure out what’s about to happen?

AI can be useful in some circumstances

And the point is that this statement can be true AND we can still think AI should cease to be used. The “useful in some circumstances” benefit does not justify the ethical and environmental cost.

get past there built in kneejerk reaction to anything AI related

Maybe because it’s not kneejerk. We know how AI works, what it takes to have it running, how it was built, who controls it. For many people, the ends do not justify the means (and that’s if we assume fixing CVEs on Linux is somehow worth the very problematic ends AI is leading us towards anyway).

Sure, but that’s a lot of work and worry to keep all those backups going and syncd

I think it took me 15 minutes to first install SyncThing and Vorta? I literally haven’t worried about this for the last two years

Now, you’re probably an IT admin or programmer

I’m a biologist :) (though to be fair, mastering in bioinformatics, but this setup came first!)

And in the end, you have a computer hooked to your stereo, the one place I’m trying to escape the constant computing.

My stereo is a Gradiente from the 70s, no computers there. My portable player does connect to a computer to sync sometimes… but I do this when charging, so out of mind.

But… those other storage mediums can also get damaged, burn, rot, etc

Sure can. You know what else they can do? Instantly and cleanly copy their data to any other storage device, they can even do so automatically every day!

Your hard drive can be erased in many ways.

I’m willing to bet my main SSD, my backup HDD, my FLAC player’s SD card, and my laptop SSD all carrying the same file are going to be more durable than a piece of plastic.

I’m curious as to why?

Physical media scratches, rots, burns down, etc. They also require a lot of space, and you can’t have it all with you easily.

My FLAC library is got the same or better audio quality, I can backup and copy in seconds for myself or friends, I can carry everything, or just curated playlists, with the toggle of a button, and I can preserve them on any medium I find - mechanical HDs, SD cards, SSDs, etc.

Though I am very curious about vinyl…

I prefer dedicated digital players over physical media, for instance, a FLAC player with a digital library over CDs, but I’m glad to see this trend catching up. Anything that gets people building their own collections, escaping algorithms and escaping DRM/streaming is a huge win in my book.

It’s all part of the plan, create technological dependency. Why is Google so laser focused on making sure these school PCs are always Chromebooks?

Raise an entire generation that can’t write, research, calculate, synthesize, without a Chromebook. If it breaks, they buy a new one, when they grow up they rely on always having one, and so on.

with sweetened condensed milk

To be fair, it’s almost impossible to screw up condensed milk, it always tastes good.

Very likely, yes

Brazil’s Embrapa is trying to breed Robusta to have a taste profile more closely matching Arabica, whilst also resisting the heat better. Difficult challenge given Robusta tastes like burnt rubber.

I’d worry I’ve made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.

AI bros have zero self awareness and shame, which is why I continue to encourage that the best tool for fighting against it is making it socially shameful.

Somebody comes along saying “Oh look at the image is just genera…” and you cut them with “looks like absolute garbage right? Yeah, I know, AI always sucks, imagine seriously enjoying that hahah, so anyway, what were you saying?”

I’ll never do cloud gaming/computing.

If a cloud server becomes the only way to play the newest releases, I’m never playing the newest releases again. That’s fine. There are more games between 1980 and 2025 than I have years of life available to play.

If you can’t build a desktop and must rent an Amazon computing instance, I’m not doing computing anymore. That’s fine, people lived for thousands of years without computers, I don’t need computers to eat.

Your original comment said you hope they never get released.

In direct reference to “terabytes of child abuse videos” yes, I hope they never get released. This is different than “show the faces and names of the criminals”. Not sure how one could struggle with such a simple sentence.

The ones at the DOJ, which is led by a corrupt loyalist?The ones at the FBI, which is led by a different corrupt loyalist?

That part is the part I agree is the real issue that must be urgently addressed, yes. The release of the raw videos is not and will never be the path. We don’t disagree here.

Agreed. But considering how that was my point from the very start, I’m unsure what you’d expect me to reply to that.