alt Hacker News> Now is probably a good time to liquidate your pension, fly to a remote island somewhere, and live out the remaining 6 months or so of civilization in peace.
> So maybe the open source apocalypse won’t happen yet.
Sorry I wasn't at the last doomer meeting, when did we decide good open source models are a harbinger for the apocalypse?
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I assumed it meant that when open weights reach the capability of frontier models, and tounge in cheek referencing the terrible consequences of us all getting our hands on mythos+ capability models without restrictions.
Cute. Climate change’s apocalyptical impact on food crops and cancer rates (post-ozone collapse) never convinced people to enact change.
But hey, it’s open-model LLMs, the boogeyman! Can’t have that, it must be OpenAI or Anthropic safely controlling the market and calling all the shots.
this is a blog post from a company that hosts open weights LLMs (https://www.doubleword.ai/). I think its possible it might have been tongue in cheek
Doomerism is at all time high
People becoming more and more neurotic by the day
If anything open-source models are a hedge against the apocalypse. Or at least against the cyberpunk dystopia.