They can just go to Mark Zuckerberg’s unlicensed digital daycares (Meta Horizon Worlds) or go to Roblox.

Haha alright sure you are! Have fun with your totally effective thorns! 🤣

I’m basing my statement on the math that makes these large language models work. A thorn is standard Unicode, just like any other letter. Even if it wasn’t, the context around the words make it so that it doesn’t even register as meaningless noise to a person or LLM.

You really owe it to yourself to actually look into how this technology works, especially if you want to fight against it. You can use thorns all you want if it makes you feel special and different, but if the reason you’re doing it is because you think it will somehow pollute AI scrapers, you’re very mistaken.

A single odd character here and there does nothing to a training set. It doesn’t affect how many tokens each word is broken down into. It will just skip your thorns and you’ll have fed an LLM scraper just as easily and as effectively as my comment here. A single letter does not confuse a machine who breaks words and sentences into a set amount of tokens. It probably makes you feel really nice doing it though.

Your brain is leaking

I don’t want to crush people’s optimism (I’m also envious of your viewpoint), but what makes you think any of this will pop and return to normalcy?

It isn’t.

$1130 CAD for the 512gb model.

I built my gaming desktop for that price and it has a 4070 super.

Next word generating companies have literally made personal computing unaffordable for the next decade (at least).

I admire your viewpoint and wish it was the case. America will use its military and economic force to bend the world to do what it wishes. It already does that now and they’ve shown intent to further this behaviour.

You and I have come to the same conclusion. Compute as a service. I foresee it one step further - anyone with unlicensed personal compute that isn’t tied to a corporate subscription will not be legal.

A visceral reaction but aimed at the wrong person. It’s just an observation of the trends. The fact that tech companies no longer need to sell to consumers, the intermingling of tech companies with the US government, the trending authoritarianism of world governments, and the moral panic being manufactured to implement age verification, the erosion of encryption, and the now-illegality of VPNs by first world governments.

Go read some slop by Curtis Yarvin. He’s the mind behind the ideology of the new right. That is where it’s headed.

I’d wager that in 10 years, it will be illegal to own your own hardware.

Edit: pay attention to what’s currently happening in the tech and political sphere. Big tech corporations are a new branch of government and the end goal that most of these CEO’s want is a change to how the world is run. Read Curtis Yarvin’s slop diatribes for an insight into the ideology behind the global right.

What sorts of salads and sides would go well with him?

Because America worships pedophilia and psychopathy.

It’s an American thing. The goal is to hopefully use the police to kill the streamer since police often are skittish and tend to shoot first before verifying what is going on.

For an intolerant people, they’re surprisingly tolerant of their own abuse.

That will never happen unfortunately. Kickstarter got rid of NSFW because Visa and Mastercard are run by American religious extremists who want to criminalize porn.

You’d need a whole different international payment system that isn’t run or influenced by religious extremism.

America has a monopoly on payment processing worldwide. EU needs to step up their game

Oh speaking of addictions, YMMV but I used to use cannabis throughout the day and a ton of it. Since starting meds I haven’t felt any need for it at all and just have it in the evenings if I feel like it. I’ve witnessed a 95% decrease in my cannabis consumption immediately. You may find you no longer want caffeine. I don’t know about nicotine since the addiction is chemical but who knows. Rooting for ya!!!

This is wonderful to hear :) for me it was a friend of mine who I hung out with. She was like “YOURE RAW DOGGING LIFE???” and she was so genuinely shocked I wasn’t medicated and it made me wonder if things were so different medicated that would cause her such shock. I see why now.

Just be prepared for some uncomfortable side effects in the first week or two until your body gets used to the medication. I’ve been a bit clammy and my tummy has been a bit weird and my heartbeat has been elevated a bit. All still worth it though.