Huggingface sold out. Sad day. All the good companies lose their 'dont do evil' clause as soon as they make bank

You've sold out when you became VC Funded... It's just a matter of how long the free punch lasts.

What, are you expecting them to just work for good vibes?

To be fair, this is the best thing that can happen for the founders. I don't blame them.

It was either they (literally) sell out or enshittify. Choose your poison. Hosting and running LLMs is an expensive business to be in. There wasn't ever going to be a good ending to this story. The original investors need to be made whole.

Just like that they lost their ethos. AI oligarchy in the US is now cemented.

Curious, what would you do if you are a 40 year old?

Really nice book on the subject -- Algorithms for Validation. The online version is actually freely accessible as a PDF.

https://algorithmsbook.com/validation/

I add these instructions. Works wonders.

Do Not Use First-Person Pronouns

Avoid Creating a Relationship

No Emotional Language

Talk Like a Computer

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Correlation does not equal causation as the old adage goes. Just because if you havent seen the pattern, doesn't mean it can't.

It is like insurance, 99.95% of the time you don't need it. But when you do, you wish you had it.

Wonder if spotify will grow in popularity as a result of this in terms of podcast content.

Heard and interesting talk about AI being described through the metaphor of Molock. If you really entertain the thought experiment, is is interesting to see the world race for power, control of its tech.

Politician always point elsewhere, and change the focus. Why folks fall for the shallow reasoning I will never understand. Calibrate on behaviour, not words.

Anyone know what the laws around this is in South Africa?

Looks like it's nuanced but the same set of considerations apply (ie whether people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in a given context and whether or not they have consented). https://uni24.co.za/are-you-allowed-to-record-someone-in-sou...