alt Hacker NewsLocal models enable:
- watermark-free generation
- the stripping of watermarking from the output of SAAS models
Any discussion of watermarking is dead in the water in a world where we are permitted to have these things. I fear for the future.
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thisoneworks • today at 3:57 PM
Chill my dude. This is just a sane default which will catch normies copy pasting stuff from claude and chatgpt. It's good enough.
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Local models also enable:
- not being locked into a provider
- not being forced to have your prompts saved by a possible competitor
- an alternative to the duolopy we quickly see forming
- offline access
I fear for the future without local models, much more than the future with them, and would rather everyone had access to a local model than be certain we catch everyone copy+pasting LLM responses. Watermarking would be cool, but it's not worth losing local for.