Murder is immoral. That much is certain. ICE murders people.

No one's been murdered. And those polls were after the protesters trying to kill police were shot in self-defense.

FWIW, you aren't alone man. Stay strong.

Except the parent comment said you can stream the weights from an SSD. The full weights, uncompressed. It takes a little longer (a lot longer), but the model at least works without lossy pre-processing.

Try doing this as a normies without technical guidance. Technically correct, this time, is not the benchmark.

Anyway Microsoft and any software developer can be compelled to practically do anything, you don't want to be blocked in some jurisdictions (even less the US) and the managers do not want to go to jail to protect a terrorist, especially if nobody is going to know that they helped.

Some even go that far that they push an update that exfiltrates data from a device (and some even do on their own initiative).

And even if you are not legally compelled. Money or influence can go a long way. For example, the fact that HTTPS communications were decipherable by the NSA for almost 20 years, or, whoops, no contract with DoD ("not safe enough"...)

Once the data is in the hands of the intelligence services, from a procedure perspective they can choose what to do next (e.g. to officialize this data collection through physical collection of the device, or do nothing and try to find a more juicy target).

It's not in the interest of anyone to prevent such collection agreement with governments. It's just Prism v2.

So seems normal that Microsoft gives the keys, the same that Cloudflare may give information about you and the others. They don't want to have their lives ruined for you.

OpenAI does KYC. I refuse to deal with that.

I disagree. Music needs to be archived just as much as books and other publications. Yes, there is heat, but lots of people support them.

Good thing that there are some people to counterbalance that, then.

Not the point. The point is that nobody who doesn't know him knows whether he can be trusted, and the ISO itself might be prepared on a compromised machine unintentionally. This is very much a supply chain issue.

You're right. The ISO might have been prepared on a Windows 11 machine.

They already are paying off. The nature of LLMs means that they will require expensive, fast hardware that's a large capex.

They aren’t yet because the big providers that paid for all of this GPU capacity aren’t profitable yet.

They continually leap frog each other and shift around customers which indicates that the current capacity is already higher than what is required for what people actually pay for.

I assume the reference was AI use cases are not profitable. Those companies are subsidizing and OpenAI/grok are burning money.

Yeah but OpenAI is adding ads this year for the free versions, which I'm guessing is most of their users. They are probably hedging on taking a big slice of Google's advertising monopoly-pie (which is why Google is also now all-in on forcing Gemini opt-out on every product they own, they can see the writing on the wall).

Google, Amazon, and Microsoft do a lot of things that aren't profitable in themselves. There is no reason to believe a company will kill a product line just because it makes a loss. There are plenty of other reasons to keep it running.

I didn't imply anything about what big-tech would do.

Do you think it's odd you only listed companies with already existing revenue streams and not companies that started with and only have generative algos as their product?

Aren't all Microsoft products OpenAI based? OpenAI has always been burning money.

How many business units have Google and Microsoft shut down or ceased investment for being unprofitable?

I hear Meta is having massive VR division layoffs…who could have predicted?

Raw popularity does not guarantee sustainability. See: Vine, WeWork, MoviePass.

Where? Who’s in the black?

The users.

Ehhhhhhh

So only those with money should be allowed to play with tools? If you have no income, are unbanked, or are in an area with low earnings, that compiler is out of reach. And then you're back to piracy.