> If we can be filled with spirtual truth or meaningful wisdom through a process deployed on resilient, high-availability compute clouds, controlled by profit-seeking capitalist enterprises, what hope have we of determining our own life trajectories through reason or the detection of beautiful feelings hinted at behind the words of dreamer-poets<p>I despise and dispute this fatalistic assertion! Though its not just you, I read the same thing in the NYT and other big outlets.<p>Stable Diffusion can already be <i>trained</i> on my 2020 14" laptop, and trained very quickly! LLM inference on regular computers is coming, and embeddings/finetuning will undoubtedly follow.<p>And if your computer is old, free peer to peer efforts like Stable Horde are already operating.<p>Unlike web, social media and such, generative AI is not inherently bound to corporate clouds. Maybe if more journalists pointed this out, we <i>would</i> escape their clutches.