No, I don’t think Apple’s intention is to convince consumers not to purchase their products…

You’re talking about a single OEM. I’m referring to the breadth of “AI” devices and software that are currently being shoved down the throats of consumers and reaching into their pockets.

There are plenty of AI models out there today that are open source and can be used for a number of purposes

Yes but those make up a small fraction of modern AI spam.

Honestly I think this is the inevitable future. There are lots of jobs where what you’re paying for is the knowledge. And while LLMs likely won’t be as good as an actual expert, most “professionals”, in my experience, both in personal professional work, as well as contracting “professional” work, are not even remotely experts, and a properly-trained LLM will run circles around them.

You won’t be able to buy them, because machines are, for some reason, not allowed to be fallible like humans, but I can certainly see a scenario where someone takes an open-source LLM and trains it with professional materials (obtained both legally and illegally) and releases it for free, and it does a better job than 70% of “professionals”.

Ideally it would be a generative AI trained specifically on legal textbooks.

I don’t know why there seem to be no LLMs trained specifically on expert subject matter.

What’re you talking about? Every one of those results are potential answers to your question.

Proprietary, overpriced, with flashy visuals and apps, and a massive marketing budget. They’re the Apple of solar generators.

You’re wrong. Anyone who has ever used Google knows Reddit is an absolute goldmine of valuable information. The problem is it’s also full of jokes and puns and bad information, and AI isn’t able to sort one from the other (yet).

It’s called critical thinking education.

Yeah, I mean, we have that, and parents are constantly trying to dismantle it. No amount of “critical thinking education” can undo decades of brainwashing from parents and local culture.

You could only train AI with good sources

I mean yes, but also no. If you only train it with “good sources” then you miss out on a whole bunch of other valuable information.

Just like scholar.google.com only has “good sources” but generally it’s not going to have the information that 90% of your search queries will be about.

This is really the wrong place to be asking about closed-source software. Everyone came here specifically to get away from that.

also has a decent direct messaging system.

If it’s not E2EE, no one here will be interested.

On my instance though I like it to be more loose with the free speech.

Also probably the wrong place to be bragging about that.

We’re also not interested in any apps that can’t be downloaded from outside the Play Store.

The point is to defeat the point.

That’s great but none of that was mentioned in the comment I replied to.

I’m not questioning sanity, I’m questioning why an app that does nothing but send commands over Bluetooth or whatever needs any maintenance whatsoever.

Because these are the only shoes that could help handicapped people?

It’s not entirely surprising when a company chooses to stop paying for the upkeep and continued development of an app for a product it’s no longer making money on

How much fucking upkeep can an app require to operate a pair of shoes?

I didn’t say otherwise…

Right. Having your OS up to date is not important, I suppose?

I mean you probably want to have internet when you install any OS…

Probably far easier to exploit users on Twitter. And just way more active users. Why bother with Threads?