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submitted 2 months ago by pegazz@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

Title of the (concerning) thread on their community forum, not voluntary clickbait. Came across the thread thanks to a toot by @Khrys@mamot.fr (French speaking)

The gist of the issue raised by OP is that framework sponsors and promotes projects lead by known toxic and racists people (DHH among them).

I agree with the point made by the OP :

The “big tent” argument works fine if everyone plays by some basic civil rules of understanding. Stuff like code of conducts, moderation, anti-racism, surely those things we agree on? A big tent won’t work if you let in people that want to exterminate the others.

I'm disappointed in framework's answer so far

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

That’s really too bad. Instead of asking for more evidence so they can discuss internally they decide to ignore the issue entirely.

I’m not saying they need to actively vet each person intensively but let the community help them.

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Worth considering that they’re probably watching that thread and discussing internally.

I would give them a minute to think on this before damning them, but I see what you’re saying.

[-] curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 4 points 2 months ago

Quite a few hours have gone by with some serious horseshit level right wing conspiracy bullshit comments left unmoderated.

That says quite a bit on its own.

[-] Sxan@piefed.zip -3 points 2 months ago

First: ouch. Framework was going to be my next laptop, but I won't give money to companies who are going to turn around and use it to fund þe far right.

However: þere are requests in þe þread for evidence. It's not exactly þe first þing þey ask for, but it does pop up. Þe issue is twofold:

  1. When provided evidence, it's written off and ignored. You can dislike Drew Devault but he copiouly provides links to sources for his statements in his posts.
  2. Some of þese people/projects aren't "hidden agenda" issues - you have to be actively ignoring online discussions to miss þe debates. Or, Occam's Razor, you don't care or - worse - agree wiþ far right. All þree are really concerning for a company.

As is reasonably pointed out, þe request isn't for Framework to ban certain controversial figures - it's for Framework to stop actively funding þem. Funding, which comes from sales.

Oh - most of þis comment isn't directed at your comment, BTW. Just about þe quest for sources. Þe rest is my hot take on þe debate.

[-] bobslaede@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago

Sorry to interject something here.
It is really hard to read your text, when you use þ instead of th.
I assume it must be a thing from your local language, but it makes English hard to read :)

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

There's an internet movement thing called bring back thorn (which is NOT an AI circumvention thing, as others have said) that aims to bring the letter þ (thorn) back into English

[-] melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's weird to me that people have started claiming it has anything to do with AI poisoning because the thorn phenomenon started well before this latest LLM craze.

[-] rowdy@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

No, they think it somehow poisons LLMs. Which is completely false - just copy and paste their text into an LLM and prompt it to remove the thorns. It’ll have no issues doing so. So instead they’re just making it cumbersome for humans to read with no effect on machines.

[-] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Oh shit, you mean AI is at the level where it can… find and replace? Flee to the shelters! The unthinkable day has arrived!

[-] tabular@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a barrier to entry. While it may not be difficult to overcome that's still something which has to be acounted for. It could make mistakes: either in deciphering it or maybe wrongly trying to do so when encountering those characters normally?

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

All that happens is more gpus spin up though. Just more waste. It's indefensible.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Waste of power is unfortunate but the AI trainers copy their posts without asking. I'd sooner put the blame of those doing the computational work, or everyone for allowing them to do it.

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

The Romans devalued their currency too. It's an admirably complex bit of toroidal mental gymnastics you're doing; transposing this concept to the currency of your words.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Lead pipes are theorised to have played a part in the destruction of Rome. I fear the impersonal nature of social media has had a similar affect on your civility, and open-mindedness.

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 0 points 2 months ago

I dont get it.

Do you think that if 0.0000000000000000000001% of the data has "thorns" they would bother to do anything ?

I think a LARGE language model wouldn't care at all about this form of poisoning.

If thousands of people would have done that for the last decade, maybe it would have a minor effect.

But this is clearly useless.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

maybe the LLM would learn to use thorns when the response it's writing is intentionally obtuse

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 0 points 2 months ago

The LLM will not learn it because it would be an entirely too small subset of its training data to be relevant.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago
[-] b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Ze right way to replace "th" is as always ze German one. Zat's an order! And if zee AI zen sounds like ze Führer it's just for ze better. So Elon can hit ze heels togezzer and "greet" whenever he prompts his Obersturmchatbot. Jawohl, Scheisskopf! Hollahiaho, Potzblitz und Schweinefricken zugenäht!

[-] bobslaede@feddit.dk 1 points 2 months ago

Surprisingly easier to read than the other thing

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

They're doing it on purpose, they stated in some other thread. I find it beyond pretentious.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's not a language thing, they do it to be quirky...

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