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  • It’s a hugely disruptive technology, that is harmful to the environment, being taken up and given center stage by a host of folk who don’t understand it.

    Like the industrial revolution, it has the chance to change the world in a massive way, but in doing so, it’s going to fuck over a lot of people, and notch up greenhouse gas output. In a decade or two, we probably won’t remember what life was like without them, but lots of people are going to be out of jobs, have their income streams cut off and have no alternatives available to them whilst that happens.

    And whilst all of that is going on, we’re getting told that it’s the best most amazing thing that we all need, and it’s being stuck in to everything, including things that don’t benefit from the presence of an LLM, and sometimes, where the presence of an LLM can be actively harmful






  • Our lemmy instance is up to date. It’s our sharkey instance that needs work done that we haven’t got around to yet.

    As for Piefed, we spun it up mostly because it’s feature rich and many folk are uncomfortable with the politics of the lemmy devs. Migration wasn’t an option, because there is no database migration pathway, so we just spun up a dedicated instance.