I wrote this, and while Anarchism isn’t directly mentioned, it’s a foundation of my values. I know this is kinda an AI instance but I still wonder how y’all treat the discrepancy between the externalized costs and using AI for whatever.

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    We do not promote corporate (e.g. OpenAI, Midjourney etc) and datacenter-based GenAI as we recognize the harmful effects their creation and inference has on societies and we reject fascist ideologies underpinning them.

    I thought at least the creation of the Open Source/Weight models has the same issues? I’m still looking into local options but don’t they also need to do some very heavy scraping?

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      The point is that our use of those models does not provide any return of the investment on the costs incurred by training these models. We can’t help with those externalities. By the time the models are released to us those are already done. We of course do not support these actions.

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        So you’d prefer they don’t create new ones, but you’re using those that are built already? I get that, I’m just not sure how much the creation of new OS models is driven by how much the current ones are used.

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            I didn’t know that’s possible, though they can of course make the scrapers a bit smarter than scraping every possible link a website offers. I wonder how much of a difference that makes