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The Closing of the Frontier

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Re: The Closing of the Frontier

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mythos has not been demonstrated doing anything dramatically different than other models. so as other comments say: very premature. but the basic premise (shared among a lot of ai-doomers and ai-shamers), is that the bigs have somehow raped society (by training on everything available). this needs to be challenged: it implies quite a strong model of IP ownership, which is not what appears in law, or in founding docum…

"Raping society" seems an appropriate term, though a better metaphor is cutting a public forest or mining in public lands, which are other examples of converting public properties into private properties. Actually I, and apparently many others, would have no problem with the fact that companies like OpenAI or Google have gathered huge amounts of information from all over the world into their training sets. What bothe…

> What I find unacceptable is that now they consider as their private property what they have mined from public lands.

So how do you propose to fix that without a law similar to copyright? (At least similar to the intent of copyright, the specific implementation leaves much to be desired, obviously.)

Re: The Closing of the Frontier

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I bought a used 16 GB Intel A770 GPU for $200, and it's capable of running pretty powerful open stable diffusion and large language models. Sure, I could get more performance out of proprietary models on much more expensive hardware, but there's diminishing returns, and consumer hardware and open models keep getting better. I don't think the big investments into hosting models will pay off, especially as the base-lin…

What kind of context size and speeds are you getting?

I only have it set up for SDXL right now, and it's getting 1.27s/it at 1024x1024, and I can render images at up to 5 megapixels.
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