Running an llm on a phone will absolutely destroy your battery life. It also is imperative that you understand that the comfort of ai is bought with killing of innocents (through expediency of climate catastrophe, exploitation of the planet and the poorest on it).
I think using ai to experiment on a home server which already exists wouldnt be problematic IN A VACUUM but you would still normalize using the tech which is morally corrupt.
So you're a programmer yourself. That helps me understand where you are coming from. Thanks for clarifying.
As a programmer, you know that you need to depend on the work of others. Otherwise you cant use libraries at all. Of course the libraries are only as good as their own people. But the important part here is that the library doesnt have a makefile for example, which renders your former argument moot. They are often included in huge projects which themselves both have automated and manual reviews.
Somehow I dont believe you have experience in foss programming, at least not in larger projects. Tons of stuff is being done which ensures tons of eyes go over every bit of code, over time. for example in kodi, I have to depend on the upstream people doing their work. they have upstream themselves, etc. All of this is reviewed over and over and over again.
Also, leftpad is a prime example of how you are completely unable to do your thing in a cooperative. you will always get shut down. maybe not immediately but eventually.
You could also perform an ssl downgrade attack on some systems, if you own the wifi, you can just redirect to malicious pages (i.e. rebuild the steam page and have them log in), etc.
I saw the code. It was pretty obvious once you look at that particular piece. You have to adapt the makefile pretty often so you also would see gibberish. If you're a programmer and you encounter what YOU think is gibberish, all alarms go off.
i dont know your experience in coding but I dont see how a huge number (a given with old and popular code) of experienced people could overlook something like this.
Writing free software that makes people happy, cooking food for free that makes people happy, helping people to preserve their freedom through privacy, using their rights, getting away from harmful relationships.
Thats not really how open source works. If you use an open source tool like say, nano. It has been looked at and improved for many years by many people who have worked up an understanding of the code.
I realize that this can only be natively understood by a programmer.
What we (I) do when we work at open source projects is reading through the code for so long until we "get it". It means we start to understand what does what. If you want so change something, you must locate it, finding out what it is not. The chance that someone stumbles across something that then sparks a full blown investigation isnt that low. Of course you can hide something in extremely long and boring code but its alas automatically tested by most software shops.
In short: we dont do this since yesterday and opeb source is so many universes better than closed source is a truth that only a fool would disregard.
That and we're living in a fascist system, in truth. It only has a democratic veneer in some countries and that is getting thinner and thinner.
The giant corporations we spend huge amounts of money for and a huge amount of people work for are extremely authoritarian.
Strong hierarchies, strong distinction into who is allowed and who is not, extreme selection by abilities, they can just "ask you you to leave" for no reason really. Etc.
Maybe I didnt really get the second part yesterday as it was late for me. But still, of course people have to change their thinking but the "solution" you described was so thin and abstract that I cant see how that could be done or how it would help.
You're onto something... About not being taken seriously.
One needs to have serious delusions to believe making the situation even worse would somehow make it better. except maybe by waking people up and spark violent uprising but the death toll would be insane and empathy forbids that idea.
And the assumption of "theoretical reach of influence" in full knowledge of the nuclear arsenal that states wield, only someone with no grip on reality would suggest thay this in earnest.
Dear lord. No day without more AI hype. I really need to get a link where all the horrors of ai are summarized so I can post it with low effort as it is to hype it.
Running an llm on a phone will absolutely destroy your battery life. It also is imperative that you understand that the comfort of ai is bought with killing of innocents (through expediency of climate catastrophe, exploitation of the planet and the poorest on it).
I think using ai to experiment on a home server which already exists wouldnt be problematic IN A VACUUM but you would still normalize using the tech which is morally corrupt.