Idk this whole thread confuses me. I’m on est.social instance, I’m gonna assume I see everyone who hasnt excluded my instance and vice versa…

Sorry what do you mean? I see users posting from other instances in my mastodon app (I haven’t used it much).

yeah my analogy is not so good… LLMs suck with factual stuff, they are better with coding or languages (Claude has been really helpful to me with Estonian).

Well yes, they are glorified text autocomplete, but they still have their uses which could be considered “smart”. For example I was struggling with a programming thing today and an LLM helped me out, so in a way it is smarter than me in that specific thing. I think it’s less that they are dumb and more that they have no agency whatsoever, they have to be pushed into the direction you want. Pretty annoying…

LLMs are smart in the way someone is smart who has read all the books and knows all of them but has never left the house. Basically all theory and no street smarts.

Apparently that was a misunderstanding, he communicated badly. Or I’m thinking of something else, idk. https://archive.ph/xoleo

PeerTube isn’t one of these “YouTube, but without ads” apps? I might check it out, but I still think YouTube has the total monopoly on video form content right now.

I don’t understand.

Too little too late, I wish there was a non-US alternative to YouTube.