• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      The “price” of a free offline speech to text AI model? Three of them, actually, to work with varying levels of compute resources available?

      You anti-AI folks are friggin’ ridiculous.

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        I don’t think it’s anti-AI more a lack of trust of services saying here’s a product…and the concern it will be used for ulterior motives. I know I don’t like my voice being captured.

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          23 minutes ago

          It’s captured when you press a button and only handled locally. This is exactly the sort of thing you want for accessibility. Not everybody can type or type well.

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        I admit I don’t know the details, but the title makes it seem like there is a “product” there, by a “company”, probably in it for the profit. And since there is a huge problem with datacenters as it is, why would we encourage more? Most of you AI enthousiasts are blindly walking us into a pit of regret.

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          32 minutes ago

          I admit I don’t know the details, but the title makes it seem like there is a “product” there, by a “company”, probably in it for the profit.

          You don’t know more than the details - you don’t know anything about it.

          And since there is a huge problem with datacenters as it is, why would we encourage more? Most of you AI enthousiasts are blindly walking us into a pit of regret.

          Guess you’ll want to research what “offline” means. I doubt you have any idea what any problems with datacenters are either given your… we’ll call it “knowledge” of the situation.

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        Nothing AI is free. Unless there’s a chain of custody for all of the training data, it’s still unethical even if it’s used for a good thing. If I build a wheelchair ramp out of the flesh and bones of orphans I’m still not a very good person. And there are non-AI ways to accomplish this that are just as good that would require almost comically less resources.

        This attitude is why Ubuntu, and only Ubuntu, recommends a minimum of 6 GB of Ram btw. You can run a full KDE system with onboard graphics and all the bells and whistles for less than 2 GB on other distros.

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          Nothing AI is free. Unless there’s a chain of custody for all of the training data, it’s still unethical even if it’s used for a good thing.

          This is the weirdest sort of AI bullshit I keep coming across.

          And there are non-AI ways to accomplish this that are just as good that would require almost comically less resources.

          And… Where are they?

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            This is the weirdest sort of AI bullshit I keep coming across.

            Hi this must be your first time on Earth in the last decade, every single AI company has been in or is currently in no less than ten dozen lawsuits over copyright infringement. It’s so bad there’s at least one website purpose built to track copyright infringement from AI companies..

            Without a specific chain of custody for every piece of training data going into the models, there is a default that the model cannot be trusted and is likely infringing on someone’s copyright.

            To specify the 'nothing AI is free" part, LLMs are grossly computationally inefficient. Whether it’s local or not.

            And… Where are they?

            Already installed on most distros.