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Which one is this? Xlibre? Yeah theyre fash
Then what fash jacketing are you talking about?
The guy that replied to Antoine Le Gonidec. Antoine also says llms are a 'fascist backed technology' which implies anyone that uses them are fascist sympathizers. He also said Debian was becoming a Nazi bar.
The reality is that LLMs are tools. It doesn't even matter if a fascist made a tool if you are able to expropriate that tool (e.g. open weights models, picking up a Luger to shoot a Nazi doesn't make you a Nazi).
That's a factual statement.
Do you think China is fascist? They also back LLMs.
You are unfairly characterizing Antoine's behavior as fash jacketing.
You didn't answer the question. What I am saying is it is nonsensical to say something is 'fascist backed' unless you are taking a moralizing stance on a technology as a whole. Banning all LLMs is clearly bad imo, but it makes sense to care about the origin of an LLM.
Banning all LLMs and discussing acceptable exceptions is how a community could actually end up with a culture of responsible LLM use.
That is categorically not banning all LLMs, though. And again, do you think China is fascist?
People are acting real fucking weird about LLMs in leftist spaces and even in general, yeah I get it a lot about it is gross as hell but I think we can afford ourselves a bit of nuance here as a treat.