Comment by qingcharles
3 days ago
Sol won't do some things. Like, GPT freaked out yesterday because I needed to vector trace a logo and it said it would be a rights violation.
Then I have to work down the list: Grok, then Muse, then if those fail I make the Chinese one do it.
Seems like you should flip your list and save time. I'm not sure why everyone is so ideological about tools. If it works well I use it. Refusals are a non starter.
Imagine if my table saw refused to cut out certain shapes. I mean once they are internet connected some brand will probably try that...but just why put up with it at all?
Not a fan of Elon but latest Grok gets shit done and isn't a narc model from Anthropic/OAI.
Feelings about elon aside, the fact that they’re using gas generators to run these is a dealbreaker for me.
Source, to preempt the inevitable musk stans: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacexais-colossu...
43% of the US electrical grid runs on natural gas, it's the largest single source by a considerable margin.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
They're not using gas generators to run the other models?
Gas generators are common in new data center buildouts. I'm not a fan, because they are insanely loud, but they do prevent the data centers from weighing down the grid and raising rates for all the neighbors.
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Pretty sure you're not able to use many models, besides local, if you need to guarantee where the energy produced powers them. I don't align with much of what's going on in frontier AI today. And I don't actually use it as much as I had been as I've invested in local hardware. But I'm still curious and continue to test frontier models on different tasks. My limited experience with Grok is that it's boundaries are much less rigid than Anthropic and OAI, IME.
But if the planet is the only consideration here you can't use any in of these models when pointing a finger at one. They're putting them wherever they can. And I'll be one of the first one to cheer some of these systems being dismantled after the fallout / when the US has some political leaders that have a spine again.
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