Well even good old typewriter is not safe is it…
They way you can be tracked across the web even with your device metrics alone or morbid repetetive habits is frankly… terrifying.
And how many % of the world population do you think is willing to sacrifice convenience for (passing) privacy ?
I write my own tools. Most people avoid anything beyond “click and download”
It’s wanted behaviour. Sadly. #ForTheProfit #GiveUsYourDataOmNomNom
Let me introduce me to my lord and saviour: #airplanemode
“Excuse me Mrs. we cannot pick up a smartphone signal near you. Could you please turn on your smartphone for us ?”
“Ah it’s on. But in AIRPLANE MODE !” “oh no !”
“Dad wrote TempleOS”
Jesus said while opening the laptop with a gazillion stickers on it
If you take (read: steal) a little its a crime. If you pilfer the internets EnTiRe Dataset, its an innovation.
Wat
For aiding programming it beats stackoverflow (thank goldness I dislike SO …)
But be prepared for it to lie, make stuff up, loose context etc. AI works best if you show it the way. Hold its hand and lead it to where it should go.
Otherwise it’ll cry in the corner talking to itself.
Also it cannot create real new data, only glue old datasets together with pva
Thats why you write your projects now, download all weights locally and never look back.
For posterity huggingface is terrible. If you need it. Even codebergs new changes are a disaster in teh making The days of “if its on the internet” are now your own responsibilty.
Love how things are being rewritten on the fly now… Even better, lets scrape and “selfimprove”… WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong