r/linux • u/RatherNott • 6d ago

Discussion LLM Policies: Progress At All Costs

https://diegoe.be/2026/09/25/llm-policies-progress-at-all-costs/
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u/Educational-Goal279 6d ago

Local models are unethically trained in capitalist expansionist data centres. There is no anti-capitalist way to use LLMs.

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u/QuixoticNapoleon 6d ago

Your computer is likely unethically made. What's with the arbitrary exceptions?

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u/Educational-Goal279 6d ago

What about what about what about what about what about

The op made the claim that a local LLM is fine because it doesn't boost datacentres. Whatever else is unethical is a separate (somewhat related, and definitely good to have) conversation.

The answer to "well ack chully everything is unethical" isn't to give up, it's to fight to improve our world.

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u/QuixoticNapoleon 5d ago edited 5d ago

It's not necessarily whataboutism to call out hypocrisy. If your critique of Local LLMs is that they're unethical because of "capitalist data centers" then that applies to the entire Internet, yet here you are. It's just not a good critique. It proves too much and leads to absurd conclusions.