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Users will spill over from shitty experiences to non shitty ones.

It's easier to build everything now.

AI is a catalyst and the activation energy is much lower.

High energy (shitty) systems will not prevail.

This is radically different.

This is the Zerg rush era.

And they'll continue to get worse because anyone can build this tech and play this game now.

The old moats are falling. The old rent seekers are losing their sway.

You love to see it.

And this is why open weights matter.

If you can think a thing, you should be able to prompt a thing.

We demand a second amendment right to access god in a first class manner.

If the people can't access god, then we are living under a dictatorship with aims to enslave us.

My hate for hyperscalers is greater than my hate of being SRE.

It's time to leave GCP, AWS, and the rest.

Google and Amazon markup can eat it. Fuck those guys.

Let's not forget that Google and Amazon tried to offshore us, played a role in inventing the labor-displacing models in the first place, and that don't give a shit about any of us.

I hope they ossify and turn into the next IBMs.

They thought AI would lead to growth and a greater concentration of wealth for themselves, but it's actually the seeds of their own destruction and dismantlement.

Anthropic won't let people make video games. They are on the wrong side of history.

They are so going to get disrupted. Chinese open weights models will have no such limitations, and there's no way we'll let Anthropic outlaw or ban them. (And even if they did, they can't police the whole world.)

There is no moat. Anthropic should be playing nice, not trying to create a god while holding engineers under their thumb. We will route around it.

The horse version feels more fun and cozy.

Citizens vote for what speaks to their daily lives and fears. Not necessarily academic ideas or concepts.

They'll vote out of pain more readily than out of conscience.

Open weights models in the data center are more important than on consumer devices.

In the future, even consumers will launch weights and fine tunes they own in the cloud.

People don't own the fiber to their home, so why should they expect to run the GPUs? If they want smart coding and video models, they'll need H200s and B200s, and they'll need to rent them.

I feel as though AI is going to blow these all out of the water soon.

And then we'll get AI-designed hardware codecs for them.

> we have restrictions that we can't use a chinese model!

Please expand on this if you can. Why can't you? Who mandated this?

Spring 2022 was not an adherence/performance era.

I think we can still appreciate these snapshots in time.

In the future, this will be an aesthetic. Some already consider early AI jankiness a style.

These are not meaningless.

If you do regular image gen, you can see that these images demonstrate memorized styles, broken anatomy, bad text layout (or hallucinated text), etc. Even the old Dall-E watermark is a throwback.

Generation times are orthogonal.