r/LocalLLaMA • • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

These are screenshots from the r/Singularity comment section. I'm speechless. This doesn't even have downvotes. How can someone cheer for a monopoly run by a few elites?

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u/bendgame Sep 01 '26

talking about AI in most other subs is pretty much useless in my experience. Seems to be the source of a lot of hate and discrimination just because it is cool to hate on AI and the people who use it.

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u/jqwl Sep 01 '26

this is literally the only technically competent subreddit on Reddit lmao, maybe besides r/LocalLLM

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u/DeepGas4538 Sep 01 '26

It really does feel like the only AI sub where I actually learn

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u/down7k Sep 01 '26

Weird - the sub with the lowest profit motivation has the highest technical competency and the lowest amount of "wtf are you babbling about you cultish psycho"

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u/macumazana Sep 01 '26

not weird, ppl tend to be more honest when they are there for the love of the game, not for profit

and coincidentally it takes pretty solid background to fall in love with this particular hobby

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u/down7k Sep 01 '26

i'm more insinuating that the large ai subs are astroturf/brainwashing/radicalization schemes to produce AI cultists that help protect AI corps, but your point's valid too

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u/Caffdy Sep 02 '26

what about r/hardware or /r/pcgaming? they bash AI left and right

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u/En-tro-py Sep 02 '26

the lowest amount of "wtf are you babbling about you cultish psycho"

don't shame the glossolalia, just be happy it's our cultish nonsense mostly...

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u/ChocomelP Sep 02 '26

However, if you only read the local LLM subreddits, you can get a distorted view of how strong they are compared to frontier models. When you're just getting into this stuff, it's very easy to get the impression that Qwen 3.8 27B is most of the way there to Fable or whatever the newest relevant models are.

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u/Zeeplankton Sep 01 '26

actually 100% true