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0 pointsgreggoB21d ago0 comments

And the reason they can't do something as simple and easy as ask for consent is...?

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hparadiz21d ago

You provide consent by using the software.

J-Kuhn21d ago

You consent by reading this comment.

bigyabai20d ago

You joke, but that's how all of FAANG sees things:

  By using Chrome or ChromeOS, you agree to the Google Terms of Service located at https://policies.google.com/terms and these Google Chrome and ChromeOS Additional Terms of Service.

https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/

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greggoBOP20d ago

This doesn't explain why it is beyond their ability to expressly ask for it, or notify the user in any way. Very literal example of the one not precluding the other.

bigyabai20d ago

Same reason the iPhone doesn't ask you which App Store you want to use. If you disagreed with the default choice, you'd be using another phone.

That's how technology is nowadays, unfortunately. Pick the tribe you want to support, and watch them blatantly disregard every standard and convention of modern society. Your best bet is to personally divest from these ecosystems and advocate for their regulation and dissolution, if you think it's bad.

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skydhash21d ago

Imagine Amazon deciding to take out $1000 from a credit card just because you use it to buy a phone case. Because you "consented" by using their marketplace.

tjansen20d ago

They probably didn't even think about that. Admittedly, 4GB is quite big, but if I were in their shoes, I would have expected that people are thrilled about using a local LLM instead of sending data to a cloud-based LLM.

I am still stunned that there are people who hate AI so much that they have a problem with the weights of an LLM being on their computer. To me, that sounds rather esoteric.

cataflutter20d ago

Disk space is one thing, but the actual download size is higher than some people's data allowances altogether! It baffles me that a lot of people don't seem to be aware of this

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hparadiz21d ago

You provide consent by using the software.

J-Kuhn21d ago

You consent by reading this comment.

bigyabai20d ago

You joke, but that's how all of FAANG sees things:

  By using Chrome or ChromeOS, you agree to the Google Terms of Service located at https://policies.google.com/terms and these Google Chrome and ChromeOS Additional Terms of Service.

https://www.google.com/chrome/terms/

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greggoBOP20d ago

This doesn't explain why it is beyond their ability to expressly ask for it, or notify the user in any way. Very literal example of the one not precluding the other.

bigyabai20d ago

Same reason the iPhone doesn't ask you which App Store you want to use. If you disagreed with the default choice, you'd be using another phone.

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skydhash21d ago

Imagine Amazon deciding to take out $1000 from a credit card just because you use it to buy a phone case. Because you "consented" by using their marketplace.

tjansen20d ago

I am still stunned that there are people who hate AI so much that they have a problem with the weights of an LLM being on their computer. To me, that sounds rather esoteric.

cataflutter20d ago

Disk space is one thing, but the actual download size is higher than some people's data allowances altogether! It baffles me that a lot of people don't seem to be aware of this

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse