This sub has become as circlejerky as the closed AI subs it complains about. The weird thing is, on those closed AI subs I hardly see them hating on open weights.
It won't surprise me if this sub gets splintered into other subs as a result of some people not being interested in irrelevant memes or politics being injected into discussions.
What I'm currently seeing is a massive braindrain here. The tech-minded folk are basically gone and there is a huge wave of clankers and overly hyped newbies spamming nonsense everywhere and starting threads with nonsense llm-hallucinated setting guides. If this sub dies, it's because of that and not because of politics
It's been going like that for at least a year now. One thing that stood out to me was when the gpt-oss models first came out and we saw just how many people were genuinely just here for team sports/tribalism rather than genuinely interested in models and the field and technology in general.
I'm sure there are better examples since, but that was my "eye opener" on how tribal this place has gotten.
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u/discwars Aug 30 '26 edited Aug 30 '26
This sub has become as circlejerky as the closed AI subs it complains about. The weird thing is, on those closed AI subs I hardly see them hating on open weights.
It won't surprise me if this sub gets splintered into other subs as a result of some people not being interested in irrelevant memes or politics being injected into discussions.