alt Hacker NewsWe desperately need to keep local models competitive with the hyper scalers. I won't want to be beholden to them and their whims forever. With anthropic now restricting game reverse engineering I think we're about to cross a Rubicon of censorship.
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> I won't want to be beholden to them and their whims forever.
Who's keeping you beholden to them now?
But it's all for the good of humanity, so how can you complain?
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/53Gc35vDLK2u5nBxP/...
>Anthropic restricting game reverse engineering
Which is literally the coolest thing to come out of this...
Did they get a letter from Nintendo's legal team or something?
Wait and see, I give it fairly high odds everything tagged as 'uncensored' or 'abliterated' will get wiped from huggingface at some point in the future. The main barrier to wider spread adoption of this right now is that very few people have the legit on-prem hardware resources/budget to run something like an abliterated Q8 of deepseek v4.1 flash 1017 or mimo 2.6 or equivalent in size locally.
Yes it is extremely aggravating that Claude will often raise copyright objections even when doing something like putting images in a report for personal use. The AI companies are the most blatant copyright abusers in history.
> We
who is "we" exactly? because the vast majority of us (pretty much everybody except people working at at hyperscalers that are not the usual hyperscalers) can essentially do nothing.
I got banned from the Hermes discord today not gonna lie.
Did we ever get back to 16GB feasibility?
AFAIK the timeline was:
- AI was shit, models could fit in your GPU
- AI was shit, models could no longer fit in your GPU
- AI got good
Sonnet 5.5 refused to implement code using selenium/firefox to scrape a webpage on my laptop after we got a 403 from a cloud-based IP. I made that clanker generate datasets for the rest of the week to use up my weekly usage that would have been wasted.
The nice thing is that current local modes don't go away. The weights are out. Qwen 27b and deepseek are already very useful. Hardware will keep getting stronger so after the current memory crisis you can run them more cheaply.
Of course the proprietary models will continue to improve and we have no guarantee that there will be new open models. But for coding, the local models are already good enough for a vast amount of use cases, if you are an experienced developer yourself and can guide it.