I hate that LLMs are called “AI”, but they do have some uses if trained on the right data set (rather than pirating all the data of all of internet and calling making the LLM think it’s valid data). I have been wanting to set one up for my Home Assistant voice control so that it can better understand my speech. Also, for better image component recognition for tagging in Immich.

I wish they would force the companies to release their training data sets considering they are getting a lot of it illegally (not that I’m a big copyright fan, but it’s crappy that copyright applies to individuals and small businesses, but not to big rich people and corporate backed companies. And attribution, and copyleft policy if the creator wants it, is something I agree with strongly.) If we could get the data sets and pick and choose what portions we want to include and then train our own LLMs, it would be better. It’s why scientific LLMs actually are useful. They are primarily only trained with peer reviewed scientific data not 4Chan and Reddit craziness or training it with SciFi and parody works as fact. No wonder it hallucinates.

Bullshit in, bullshit out, to paraphrase. If you teach a toddler that propaganda on 4chan or with SciFi, parodies, and hate speech as fact rather than giving it all context, they turn out to be the people who post thst nonsense. But the people funding it want quick results with no effort, and that’s what they get. A poorly educated child randomly spouting nonsense. LOL