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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills

Same as it ever was, tbh Not long ago Wikipedia was the leftwing devil over Assault Rifle/Armalite Rifle brigades If you're not behind solar and wind energy driven around by little AI/AI adjacent tech then you aren't actually left. Musk and Sama ruined stuff, but now they're gas/coal geezers

Given enough time we'll have open source and home made small language models that (yes, accurately, yes, without hallucinating) teach crochet and organic farming. It's far too useful-yet-horribly-boring to ignore, just like blogs, patreon, wordpress, wikis, reddit, blah blah blah

No, we will not. The problem of hallucinations is inherent and unsolvable - because LLMs do not think or reason or understand or know, they make statistical predictions of the most satisfying response, and there is no point at which truth is distinguished from falsehood in that process.

An LLM does not possess ANY internal model of the world, let alone an accurate or consistent one. It predicts responses from inputs using statistical inference. It is fundamentally, intrinsically incapable of distinguishing truth from falsehood, because it doesn't know what truth IS.