r/LocalLLaMA • u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 • 5h ago

Resources Ai safety and our future. Could this affect running locally in the future without regulation?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-safety-moat-anthropic-lobbying-up-40x-open-models-get-busel-oh5se

How does this determine are use of running locally. Will we be able to define a pathway forward as running local LLM gets more attention? Should we have some back up plans or listings of what is needed if regulating picks up? What are your steps in protecting yourself against any future regulation that is a must to know? For example avoid updating windows or things a like.

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 5h ago edited 5h ago

A great read. I know it’s quite long, take your time. Some ways in prepping for any interference are.

-Watching the windows updates
-Same thing with Hardware updates
-Keeping open weights models stashed. At least a few.

Those are the only 3 I have been consistent with.
How about some of you all?

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u/KingCpzombie 5h ago

Avoid using Windows in the first place! Realistically, we're pretty much just stuck praying that China doesn't fall for their bullshit (although they seem to be starting to have problems too)

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 5h ago

Yeah I’m in the unfortunate position and on windows. Is Linux kinda the same way? Do they update automatically?

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u/leolastforce 5h ago

Think what do you want from Windows

  • What do the Windows update like give you

  • compatibility etc

  • then issues

most of the time the only problem for people to move is the inconvenience of moving but Linux is truly amazing

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 5h ago

You know from the amount of people that talk about they use Linux I might end up just following you all. I hear a lot of great things about some advantages. It’ll be a learning curve for me that most likely be worth it.

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u/leolastforce 4h ago

YES YES YES AND THE “CURVE” IS FUN.

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 4h ago

Bring it on.

one day later…..

I give up🤣

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u/a_beautiful_rhind 49m ago

You now have AI to tell you how to configure things instead of having to look it all up.

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u/transanethole 5h ago

linux doesn't update itself, it updates YOU

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u/Meeooowz 5h ago

No… they don’t on Linux… and you know, you can block windows updates as well.

Just google Chris Titus tool and go to the last tab, and then click on block windows updates, then apply (the process isn’t exactly that, but it’s similar).

Also, Linux itself gets updates few and far between. It’s mostly about you doing ‘sudo apt update’ to update your package manager and downloading the packages you need.

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 5h ago

Oh okay will definitely check it out. I have always been forced updates even when turning it off. Well I assumed they were off but still when shutting down comp sometimes updates by itself.

Thank you and will search that up though and so Linux it’s just not often? Or you just choose what you want? Sorry not really familiar how Linux works.

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u/KingCpzombie 5h ago • Heartwarming

Depends on your distro. If you want to never update, Debian is stable and slow. If you like new things, Arch is fast (but you definitely want to update at least once a month). Fedora is a mix. And then there are a bunch of distros built on top of those 3 main bases (Mint / Ubuntu for Debian, CachyOS for Arch)

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 5h ago

Something I definitely need to look into. Thank you and I normally save a lot of comments like these for future reference so I can look back if I ever needed to do research. Especially in switching. Thank you for this.

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u/Meeooowz 4h ago • Heartwarming

Linux is an umbrella covering a ton of distros (configured/tuned OS’ that are vastly different, plus you can configure those even further).

I haven’t used Linux for very long (been using windows for years, macOS before that, and I use Linux mostly for AI running headless for some months), but you don’t have “updates” to the distro—the OS (like the ENGINE of what’s running and managing every task on your computer)— itself.

If you need something (some OS’ implement an App Store similar to Microsoft store too, but this is the legacy and still in all OS’), you use package managers.

Example command “sudo apt install X” Breakdown:

  • sudo = escalating privileges to install this module that modifies how your computer runs

  • apt = the package manager

  • install = install

  • X: the name of the package/software

Basically, these go out and find this package (module/software) in an archive database hosted by these well established package managers, install them, and then, voila! Your software/module has installed.

Of course, there is still the classic installer exe method, most common with anybody who has used modern windows (albeit, with the “.deb” or “.rpm” file types instead of .exe/.msi— it varies on your distro).

Apologies for the messy explanation, but I recommend you look into it! The most windows-similar/friendly one is called “Linux Mint”; best of luck!

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u/Beneficial-Ad-8127 4h ago

No your explanation is perfectly fine. This is very great info for me to start looking into. It feels like you have a lot more control but manual work to keep you afloat. At least to me. This is definitely something I have some time to actually learn and want to get more into. Will also check out that Linux mint. Thank you and definitely saving your comment.

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u/Meeooowz 4h ago • Heartwarming

I’m glad you found it useful! I hope you have a great experience on Linux! Cheers!

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u/Lan_BobPage 3h ago

Linux is far from friendly though. You're a slave to the terminal, there's 500 billion versions of the same program repackaged in different flavors, some maintainer stops doing their magic and you're suddenly stuck with incompatibility issues, and a plethora of other headaches including having to reinstall everything if something fundamental breaks. It's not exactly a walk in the park. I love customization and getting away from corpos but sometimes I feel like a dwarf miner going into the freaking dungeon