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nightskiyesterday at 6:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

Not everything is about pure cost. Maybe I don't want to sell my soul supporting the frontier labs because they are straight up pure evil?


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nkozyrayesterday at 6:31 PM

I barely see a difference between buying the hardware that feeds (and often colludes with) those labs, at least not as a moral stance.

Even if you trained your own model, you'd be committing some of the same sins, paying for the same hardware that drove it, etc. But if you're using some open model, you're standing on the shoulders of the same corrupt giants.

I feel like when people say this is due to moral reasons, it's to justify an expensive hobby.

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