alt Hacker NewsDismissing someone with a different opinion as astroturfing is not productive.
There are loads of high performance open source LLMs on the market that compete with the big 3. I have not seen this level of community engagement and collaboration since the open-source boom 20 years ago.
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Herbstluft • yesterday at 12:10 PM
It is a fair note when there are a lot of people with a monetary incentive to hype up a certain piece of technology. And as gp correctly points out: "democratizing" is most commonly used in a very hostile and underhanded manner.
It is what we are talking about, hence not "counterproductive".
If I believed it was a different opinion I wouldn’t even have written the first paragraph, or maybe the whole reply.
The issue arises from it not being that person’s opinion but a talking point. People didn’t all individually arrive at this “democratisation” argument by themselves, they were sold what to say by the big players with vested interest in succeeding.
I’m very much for discussing thoughts one has come up with themselves, especially if they disagree with mine. But what is not productive is arguing with a proxy.
> I have not seen this level of community engagement and collaboration
Nor this level of spam and bad submissions.