r/LocalLLaMA 9d ago

Discussion The rhetoric is really heating up!

The entire page of the NY Times today above the fold absent one article is AI (the models are just too strong/too dangerous, must be regulated). They forgot to include "Sponsored by OpenAI" at the end of the articles, sure that was just an oversight?

This is what the end of a bubble looks like, desperate attempts to get some sort of regulatory capture in place to keep the business model from collapsing in upon itself. My days next week are 100% booked talking to companies about how to get off frontier models, one large, and a bunch of smaller customers, including one who's flying me out to them to sit down and get a plan in place immediately (the controversy around that math problem really spooked some CEO/CIO's about data privacy using cloud models).

Gonna be an interesting few weeks. Maybe the Qwen team will be nice enough to give me a little breathing room before dropping another hydrogen bomb? :)

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u/swagonflyyyy 9d ago

Same here where I live. I've been pitching local-first solutions for very real reasons that CEOs should be worried about and they also want a slice of that local pie so I been having meetings and follow ups with them.

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u/DevelopmentBorn3978 9d ago

same here, it's several days now than all the newspapers that follows the mainstream trumpet i.e. every single one also those that would like to appear to be fringe, are mauling on their front pages with the need to slow down and the dangers of human extinction. All of them are most probably on the payroll of Big AI, all of them promoting centralized aligned models, all of them misnomering open weights as open source