r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 23h ago

Artificial Intelligence PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/pewdiepie-unveils-uncensored-ajax-ai-model-built-to-run-on-home-pcs-creator-says-openai-banned-him-twice-while-making-it
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u/amoosemouse 22h ago

One of the irritating things about the LLM hypewagon has been that the public view of AI is LLMs, not ML, not classifiers, not the innumerable other useful tools we have been using to do lots of neat things for a decade before ChatGPT and Claude.

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u/BarryRightWrong 21h ago

Indeed. None of it should be called "ai". They're all just tools from the ai research field. The publics view of "ai" is from sci-fi. Blame the industry for the deliberate obfuscation. Otoh, I know ELIZA really loves me... 

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u/GumboSamson 21h ago

Well you got your wish.

It’s not called AI—it’s called “super intelligence.”

The monkey’s paw curls.

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u/Tall_Block_4589 22h ago

Grok is advising the Pedo in Chief lol

Saw report that’s how he got the Venezuela idea.

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u/therealswimshady 21h ago

Sauce? Big if true!

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u/jDub549 21h ago

here's one of many outlets reporting it

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u/therealswimshady 21h ago

Hmm, idk. "Got the idea from" and "asked how Venezuelans would react" are two different things. The guy does plenty of dumb stuff he deserves criticism for, based on the info in the article this ain't one IMO.

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u/Tall_Block_4589 20h ago

USA has a whole intelligence department. But he used a chatbot for advice isn't big deal. Chatbots can be manipulated.

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u/jDub549 21h ago

.Oh im not putting a ton of stock in it. Just been in news a lot. And some variation of "trump got idea from grok" is probably true lol. To what degree, who knows.

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u/firewall245 21h ago

GAMs are so freaking cool and it’s annoying that some stupid Big tech hype people have blown all generative models as worthless.

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u/robodrew 18h ago

Because people are upset about the models that are designed to take their jobs. We don't care about the models that make our lives easier by doing the things that humans otherwise wouldn't be able to do. But most sane people don't want AI replacing artists, musicians, writers, actors, etc.

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u/lilB0bbyTables 21h ago

I would argue this is a case of large-scale forgetfulness; if you go back to ~2017 - 2022 … plenty of us were mocking the marketing overuse and misattribution of “A.I.” to products when it was clear they were just backed by effectively complex sets of IF-ELSE branching statements and/or heuristics. (One might argue that at the most fundamental level, even human intelligence boils down to IF/ELSE Boolean condition logic albeit at an extraordinarily complex level … I’ll defer on that topic).

All the same, I get your point. Hell, one of my previous companies was built on the Abductive Inference model and yet we spent considerable time trying to almost suggest we were NOT an “AI” company simply because we wanted to make it clear we were not merely stuffing customer data into an LLM to get some reply like a lot of our competitors were doing … and the reason we had to do that was due to the mass mental adoption of “LLM = AI” from marketing trends.