The post itself is making fun of r/LeftistForAI, but then I veer into the comments and there’s a lot of “AI would be good actually if weren’t for capitalism.”
First of all, people seem to be under the impression these so-called “AIs” can do a bunch of things they cannot do, which is really frustrating.
But my critique of the thing is so much more fundamental:
Anything worthwhile or interesting, whether it be written words, music, a game, whatever, is characterized by someone making an effort. Like they actually tried, they actually thought about it. They tried to look at the big picture as well as the details. Decisions were made about many things, should this be this way or that way? Things were tried, sometimes thrown out, sometimes kept. Someone went over it again and again.
Prompting a fucking LLM, or music generator or whatever, to just make a thing means that doesn’t happen. Why would I engage with a thing that the “creator” didn’t even bother engaging with?
Is nobody else feeling this way? They’re all just missing the forest for the trees! WTF is going on?
Ai really isn’t my speciality so I don’t think I can answer most of this.However I’ll give what I know a shot.
Open-source AI models (or open-weight models as I think they’re technically called) allow people to download the model’s trained parameters and run, modify and fine-tune it themselves rather than relying entirely on the developer’s platform. Many Chinese developers, including DeepSeek and Qwen, release model weights, code and technical papers, operating partly like open research labs, although not every Chinese model is open. By contrast most of the large western firms keep their leading models proprietary instead selling access through their platforms or API’s.
As for the technical minutia of your second question I am unsure beyond the fact it’s a lot of matrix maths.
Thank you very much for the explanations! I appreciate you!