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woadwarrior01yesterday at 11:18 PM3 repliesview on HN

The local LLM community is now teeming with erstwhile crypto and NFT hucksters who've brought the culture of hype from their former communities with them. There still are a few deeply technical people left, but their voices are being crowded out by the vapid marketers'.


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BoredomIsFuntoday at 3:04 PM

/r/localllama is not like that at all.

S0ytoday at 12:32 AM

I've also noticed this. I wonder what causes the overlap. It can't be as simple as crypto and LLMs requiring the same hardware.

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TheMagicHorseytoday at 4:41 AM

There are certain influential people on Twitter, who if you see them start tweeting on a subject, you know the influx of hype and hucksters is coming.

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