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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Also they made llamafile We need a slur for the obnoxious and deluded anti ai people

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I’ll be honest, when I first heard that Mozilla had come out with an AI I figured it was on the back of them trying a couple different ad scenarios, and assumed the worst. Pleasantly surprised by Orbit.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it's a good idea to not look to deeply into the historic actions of the creator of llamafile. she's pretty polarising.

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Care to share some highlights?

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 months ago

she was the face of the occupy wall street movement, but her views back then were more ancap than anti capital. while working for google she tried to petition the us government to shut itself down and hand the reins over to the tech industry, with google's ceo as president.

the base of the APE library that powers llamafile is called cosmopolitan libC, iirc in direct reference to the old soviet term.

to give credit she's mellowed out a lot in recent years.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't care who they are or what their Xitter history is.

The tools is great, the tool is not backdoored. I ruthlessly use effective tools that I can get my hands on.

Using open source software on its own does not even entails economic support for its creator.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

llamafile is not really "effective". it's incredibly impressive, but it's the opposite of effective. it's a collection of a bunch of hacks reliant on coincidences in OS design, and works by basically recompiling itself on the fly to work with different architectures.

if you want effective, run llama.cpp compiled with actual optimizations for your platform.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

By effective I mean, I downloaded one file, renamed it to .exe, ran it and now my shitty company laptop was running a basic LLM with actually lots of features, right then and there. I didn't even have a GPU or admin privileges, and it just worked

Sure, maybe it's possible to squeeze more performance out of a 3 years old laptop, but that was actually very usable out of the box. And I didn't even need to unbox it !

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We already have one. They're called luddites. They've always existed, and will bemoan any new technological advancement.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Actually luddites were and are based. Neoluddites might be able to help artistes get unfucked by Disney & co