Okay yes yes by rejecting neural networks I'm rejecting all the wonderful old technology which was based on neutral networks/machine learning, like motion smoothing TVs, and price-fixing algorithms for landlords, and transformer-based predictive text keyboards which are slower and make weirder errors than the trigraph systems they replaced. Whateverrrrr

@kouhai I just don't think they're even the same discussion. Microsoft was moving things willy nilly to undisclosed cloud services before "AI" and they will continue doing so if the coming crash forces them to stop doing cloud models. "AI" is not the cause of cloud offloading. It's much more likely that the reverse is true, AI-branded tech is being adopted *exclusively because* it gives vendors an excuse to shove a cloud API in there.

Software that exfiltrates local state to a second computer is a bad thing. Software that uses neural network models is also a bad thing. Thus, cloud models are two bad things, and local models are one bad thing.

Is one bad thing better than two bad things? What kind of question even is that? If the only choice computers give us is how *many* bad things to tolerate, then why do we have computers?

Cloud models are bad but local models are not good.

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