The AI companies' control freakery now extends to prohibitions on doing totally useful things to control our own devices. They're pushing us more and more quickly toward local models (running queries on personal devices). Talk about a counterproductive business strategy... https://www.404media.co/reverse-engineer-anything-ai-companies-crack-down-on-the-coolest-thing-people-were-doing-with-ai/
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@dangillmor the Internet routes around problems. And pushes capabilities to the edge. But the pendulum always swings between centralized and decentralized. At least in the ~40 years I’ve been in this