“The Internet is for Porn” – not exactly, but free & easy exchange of Porn was a driving force behind the growth of: FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, web hosting, load balancers, application switches, streaming video, bulk file transfer sites, BitTorrent, CDNs, life blogging, micropayments… and so it will go with local LLMs.
No wonder so many people want to ban the technology, even though it’s basically a glorified zip file of the entire internet and everything in it.
Of course…
Of course the Chinese LLMs will not come uncensored but instead with censorship that their government appreciate, as opposed to censorship that our governments appreciate.
However, I strongly believe that we are moving to a world of local models running everywhere, just in the same way that RSA encryption was considered computationally too expensive to practically deploy on small end devices back in 1991, and now it and its successors run multiple times a millisecond on every device.
Not that people are going to be happy about this.
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