My experience with ethically run (if unethically created) local models has been similar. Lots odd hardware to get slow mediocre answers.
But the biggest reason AI competes with plain old web search is that they've enshittified the web search available to us.
Corporate assholes are breaking search to force people to use their centralized harmful AI answer guessers.
We can fight back with Searx. https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Searx
There's an earthquake happening due to the ride behind them rumbling by between frames.
It really depends how much one reads into David Bowie's performance...
I'm so tired of "Ai big number" headlines. 100+ packages - but how many good ones? (Genuinely, I don't know, as I don't the recognize those listed.)
We need projects that diligently keep the slop out. We don't need every protect to do so, but it is critical that some do.
We have Meta and Microsoft to provide quick-to-market low quality shit.
The version of Linux that matters is the slow thoughtful good software.
I'm not mad at slop slingers, aa long as they don't secretly inject slop risk where not welcome.
Edit: Thanks for responses.
For anyone who has read this far, I encourage seeing responses below for informative and nuanced thoughts on this.
I'm working on adding to my vocabulary:
"Please be yourself."
Free space.
Excellent. Can "brings up love of trains in an unrelated conversation" have a separate space from "the world would be a utopia without cars"?
It's basically the same, but I really like trains and wanted an excuse to mention them.
Sub-thread of a conversation of something unrelated becomes an open source software recommendations mini thread.
"I think that's our airlock, Scotty. Our approach feels fast?! Oh. There it went."
"Okay. Yes, let's enjoy a nice sweeping panoramic pass."
"Thank you, Mr. Scott. Now let's go brief those crew all lined up at... we missed the airlock again, Mr Scott."
"Shall we double back?"
...
"Right. After another sweeping panoramic pass. Of course. No, it's fine. I can cut my speech shorter."
I'm excited about the day when these shop owners learn about Furry Porn.
"I found pictures online that looked like our two shop mascots. They seem to really love each-other, Bob."
It'll be glorious.
But maybe they're all already aware and are just advertising their support for the Furry community.
Officially, it can. Many organizations turn IMAP off "for security reasons."
Edit: Microsoft routinely turns off features for security reasons, so this comment may age poorly, if not already.