I think that ship has sailed, much the way we use google as a verb for websearch even though Google Search has long lost the honor of being genericized. (I still intentionally use websearch)
LLM generative processing as a service (id est, selling compute) is a failing business model at least for common private use cases. The only way the buildout makes sense is to sell it to governments at gouging prices. And we’re in a sorry state when the economy is propped up on government contracts in the service of authoritarian regimes.
It’d be a bit better if compute was being used to facilitate libraries and freight, but instead its surveillance and armies.
I’m asking everyone, please don’t use compute as a noun. That’s the language of the wannabe enslavers.
I think that ship has sailed, much the way we use google as a verb for websearch even though Google Search has long lost the honor of being genericized. (I still intentionally use websearch)
LLM generative processing as a service (id est, selling compute) is a failing business model at least for common private use cases. The only way the buildout makes sense is to sell it to governments at gouging prices. And we’re in a sorry state when the economy is propped up on government contracts in the service of authoritarian regimes.
It’d be a bit better if compute was being used to facilitate libraries and freight, but instead its surveillance and armies.
I think it would do us a lot of good as a society if we relaxed a bit on all the censorship.