551: AI Under Your Control
LINUX Unplugged
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Exploring the ethical implications of AI, user consent, and corporate influence on morality in technology. Discussing the importance of user consent, the ethics of corporations imposing values on users, and the potential of open source AI for a more ethical and innovative future.
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Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.
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- Southern California Linux Expo 21
- 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
- Yard House Menu
- Fountain.fm
- Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
- Stable Diffusion 3 — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
- Deedy on X — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)
- AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying
- Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
- ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma
- gemma.cpp — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
- InvokeAI — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process.
- Nixified AI — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
- NixOS-WSL
- Texas LinuxFest 2024
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- LFNW2024 - Ready or not… — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
- LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted
- LINUX Unplugged Membership
- ryantm/agenix — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
- Mic92/sops-nix — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
- Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers
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