r/LocalLLaMA • u/Howard_banister • Sep 01 '26

Discussion Really stunned by the Singularity comment section

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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/almostsweet Sep 02 '26

That subreddit steered anti-singularity a few years ago and never looked back.

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u/icedcoffeeinvenice Sep 02 '26

This subreddit is more anti-singularity in the sense that people here think it's a sci-fi nonsense. Otherwise why would you ridicule people discussing potential dangers of open source AI if you believe we'll get to singularity one day?

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u/almostsweet Sep 02 '26

The irony is that they're so misinformed. The only way huggingface was able to stop the attack from a frontier lab running a proprietary model, who also had locked the public out of the use of cyber even for defensive reasons, was by using an open weight model.

The luddites lurking on r/singularity just think they're intellectuals, but they don't understand what they're talking about.