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More than 400 scientists demand AI models be cut off from the internet immediately and demand a more secure sandboxing for AI models (ai-security-letter.org)
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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You think scammers in Africa/India are capable of running a local open weight model equivalent to the performance of a cloud frontier model?

By local I presume you mean on a gaming computer. No one can do that.

You think scammers in Africa/India are capable of running a ~~local~~ open weight model equivalent to the performance of a cloud frontier model?

Yes this is absolutely possible.

[–] Seralth@piefed.seralth.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would local mean on a gaming computer...? Are you dense? That makes zero sense in any context given the topic. I can't tell if your just being obtuse or a troll with this.

[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is what local generally means in the context of running LLMs why are you so offended? And well if that isn't what it meant and it extends to running old datacenter hardware or a repurposed mining rig, then the answer is yes lol

And shit why would local even matter? Like be real why would it need to be local?

They also could have just clarified if they meant it differently. But yea you're a reasonable person worth listening to what you got