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NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion (gizmodo.com)
submitted 4 days ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Damn, I hope this is not goodbye to uncensored models 😒

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[–] 247 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Remember, the whole AI scheme exists to take the very concept of ownership from us. This takeover is hostile.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Why do we need a centralized hub for AI models anyway? I've never figured this out. We flock to these big "friendly" fucking companies with obviously unsustainable business models trying to own and sell things that should be shared in a decentralized, democratized mesh anyway. AI models should all be distributed magnet links, not hosted files. Why do we do this to ourselves?

    The way things are going at Huggingface now, I imagine we probably will have to start building the infrastructure we need to handle AI models as distributed links sooner rather than later. Let the enshittification begin, we'll move on to a different tactic for sharing AI models while cheerfully they squeeze cash out of people and businesses too lazy to adapt. Everything working as it should, I guess.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago*

    For real, this is the perfect application for torrent. If I were building a registry that had to have sustainable cost for an open source community it would use torrents as a file transfer backend. If I were building something that I was planning to sell to a monopoly firm that has monopoly money... HTTP and cloud storage all thw way! πŸ˜„

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    The way things are going at Huggingface now, I imagine we probably will have to start building the infrastructure we need to handle AI models as distributed links sooner rather than later.

    Then "we" better get started. Mega corpos have fully embraced LLMs, to the point that they've distrusted human input too much, which is still a vital component of successful adoption. Eventually, more and more companies will wise up and figure out how to find the right balance.

    Where are we at? Oh, right... we're too busy arguing about how all AI is bad and sticking our fucking heads in the sand until the Big Bad AI Problem goes away.

    We have to fix our attitudes if we have any hope of surviving this mess and not ending up as a Cyberpunk-wannabe dystopia by the time 2077 hits. Use the fucking weapons given to us!

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  • [+] -23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    To the one Downvoter I'm curious, why are you such a little bitch?

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  • [–] -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Probably cause it’s a dumb comment, you people see conspiracies everywhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    That was hardly conspiracy worthy. It's a bit hyperbolic, but it's a fairly legit concern. Big tech is not the friend of any consumer. And big tech buying literally anything ends up a net negative for the consumer and freedom of choice. There is evidence that tech oligarchs (openAI/Sam Altman) want to gatekeep even knowledge and charge a subscription to access it.

    Huggingface is now absolutely going to become pay to play. Maybe not day one, but it will happen. Just like all the other services out there that are now subscription based that were once free and offer little to justify the move. It's also likely to drop AMD development or at least deprioritize it so hard they may as well.

    There are also movements in the industry that suggest these big tech companies want to push a move to thinclients connected to cloud services instead of local machines. This idea isn't helped by companies like Sony stripping away physical media. Nor by the RAM manufacturing cartel colluding for overpricing and abandonment of consumer markets.

    Conspiracies are only conspiracies until they come to pass, and not all conspiracies are unfounded tripe like flat earthers etc.

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