atc_scanner uses open whisper and prettified by ollama. All run locally and open source. Now if I can find something better for transcribing that is open source with learning abilities that isn't LLMs/gen AI I would use it in a heartbeart.

That being said, atc_scanner basically floors your GPU or CPU to do this task so it definitely isn't efficient.

Gen AI and LLMs in general are bad. They are bad for society, they are bad for our brains, they are bad for our privacy, they are bad for our security and they are bad for our environment.

It is fun for little pet projects, maybe. I think it has utility but is wwaayyyyyy overhyped. People both wildly over and wildly underestimate its capabilities.

I think using it in prod isnt a good idea. Good luck securing or planning around something one doesn't fully understand that doesn't actually understand what it is doing or how to say "I don't know". I think we need to regulate AI ASAP and not use this shit in production. I think we need to protect our society and environment from its dangers.

It's not really that I see the models themselves more negatively; the models are just models, they're interesting artefacts in themselves if not especially useful.

But I see the frauds and charlatans who pretend that they represent some form of intelligence, and the fools who credulously accept this, much more negatively.

#LLMs #GenAI

generative AI isn't AI its plagiarism, another view is that it is outright theft of Intellectual Property. I never gave permission to have my GitHub repos scanned, nor my websites. So its theft.

Generative AI isn't AI, if it was it would be capable of original thinking, not regurgitation.

The levels of misinformation and hype are simply astonishing for a technology that's bad for the planet.

Initially, I believed it was a useless toy for techbros which would fade in a matter of months. Now, I see it as an horrible scam which is burning our planet, our rights and and our minds to make an in imaginary line go up.

So it's worse, far worse.

Watched a lot of CaryKH as a teenager. I know how AI models work. I don't see training models as inherently theft or copyright infringement.

What I do see it as is a huge waste of storage space and time. Diffusion models (and the like) are VERY cool in concept, but the tech is being abused to punch down instead of up or sideways. Gone are the days of AI being trained to supplement human skill (e.g. catching cancerous cells). Now people are using it to replace human creativity, interaction, and love.

Overall... I'm more negative about LLMs. That said, I'm somewhat more open to someone showing that I'm "wrong" to be negative. Ie. I'm somewhat more open to see a legitimate use case. I've yet to see it.

I've seen "not bad inherently" uses, but I can't see that they are justified. Like the person who has used a LLM, where their prompt would have done as well as the outcome (mostly).

i voted "I see LLMs more negatively than i used to", not because of that per se, but because people decided that it was a good idea to combine a bunch of them as "agents" and give them a lot more authority and autonomy than reply with some random text.

So the potential risks are far more severe now

@Geoffairey it’s of use to me, luckily!

Obviously constrained, but of use.