If anything open-source models are a hedge against the apocalypse. Or at least against the cyberpunk dystopia.
replyIt's an apocalypse for the paid SAAS providers, which is the best thing that could possibly happen to help prevent the completely feudalist future they want to enact down the line. The world's knowledge on a USB stick is the the greatest danger to those that would like to restrict and sell what they freely benefited from themselves.
replyI assumed it meant that when open weights reach the capability of frontier models, and tounge in cheek referencing the terrible consequences of us all getting our hands on mythos+ capability models without restrictions.
replyCute. Climate change’s apocalyptical impact on food crops and cancer rates (post-ozone collapse) never convinced people to enact change.
replyBut hey, it’s open-model LLMs, the boogeyman! Can’t have that, it must be OpenAI or Anthropic safely controlling the market and calling all the shots.
Are you sure you haven't gotten your catastrophes crossed? Ozone depletion was a different crisis and people did enact change, the ozone hole has been closing fairly steadily. Wikipedia [0] thinks the prospects for the ozone layer are pretty good.
reply[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Prospects_of_o...
Some climate models expect permafrost decay and/or mere GHG rise to erode the ozone layer. It’s not 1:1 proven, but there’s indication that in a post-4C world (with feedback loops), we might slowly lose our protection against the sun’s radiation.
replyI don’t recommend getting into the literature, it’s… depressing.
(Your point about the global, concerted effort to limit the “holes” in the ozone layer reminds me that we can, when pressed, come together to tackle serious issues.)
If only climate change was as easy a solve
replyOzone action occurred before the rise of social media.
replyWe were fortunate. 20 years later and we’d have been screwed
this is a blog post from a company that hosts open weights LLMs (https://www.doubleword.ai/). I think its possible it might have been tongue in cheek
replyDoomerism is at all time high
replyPeople becoming more and more neurotic by the day
perhaps doomerism is just the logical reaction to our real-world conditions right now
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