In a post-scarcity solarpunk future, I could imagine some reasonable uses, but that’s not the world we’re living in yet.

AI art has already poisoned the creative environment. I commissioned an artist for my latest solarpunk novel, and they used AI without telling me. I had to scrap that illustration. Then the next person I tried to hire claimed they could do the work without AI but in fact they could not.

All that is to say, fuck generative AI and fuck capitalism!

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    Umm what?

    When I run a checkpoint at home, how do you think the creator of checkpoint is profiting or gaining any power/wealth?

    This stuff is ridiculously easily self hosted and run independently of any company.

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      It might be “ridiculously easy” but there is a reason why linux adoption is around 3ish%.

      Its because it isnt the easiest option.

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      Can’t really run the models in reasonable amounts of time without a reasonable GPU, there’s still a bit of a cost barrier