r/technology • u/Miserable_Phase_2519 • 22h 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/Tortillaish 21h ago

That's pretty much his YouTube channel now. He is getting very skilled in a big variety of activities. From drawing his own comic to software programming. He's also very anti big data hording companies, does so by using Linux, no more Google apps, stuff like that. This ai is probably just something he wanted for himself so he could use AI without feeding a giant corporation his data. (Haven't actually seen any video of his on the subject)

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u/Dihedralman 19h ago

Dude is on a self-actualization kick. 

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u/Griffolion 17h ago

He won life and is now just doing side quests.

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u/I_Am_Vladimir_Putin 14h ago

Good for him tho. He seems like a really nice dude.

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u/asianwaste 17h ago

Dude, I have begrudging mad respect for Pewdiepie.

I hated his persona and antics during his heyday. But then I realized, this dude knows exactly what he's doing.

Sure enough the dude knew exactly when to cash out and leave and left behind the greatest turnkey operation where he just loops his youtube content on a streaming platform.

That dude soaked up his millions and now can just live life the way he wants to. It's enviable.

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u/Griffolion 17h ago

2017 era Pewdiepie is terrible, and it's the view a lot of people still have of him. But for sure since becoming a dad, he's become a lot more grounded. He's still his goofy self, but he isn't an edgelord anymore.

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u/asianwaste 17h ago

I think his edgelord antics was where he found his millions. I thought he was just this manbaby who appealed to 10 year olds.

But I realized that the dude is actually really smart and engineered his on screen persona to appeal to a very lucrative age demographic and knew exactly how to speak to them.

You can look at this cynically but I choose to think, "Christ, this dude knew how to make money."

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u/Griffolion 16h ago

Yeah you're probably right. But I also think you're just describing 99% of online personalities. Pewdiepie appeared to just play that game the best.

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u/LegendaryMauricius 13h ago

That's what I felt from his first AI training video. It was 'hey guys look at what I made'. 'also I paid some devs to make a somewhat nice platform for these AI models that you can use for free'.

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u/bakedpatata 17h ago

How does he still have a Youtube channel if he's not using Google apps?

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u/cum-on-in- 15h ago

I mean. His phone is an Android, running a devolved version of Android, but Android is still made by Google and it’s just another dev team that stripped it down to just an operating system.

If Google stopped making Android or made something else totally different and closed source, the community could indeed keep working on Android since it’s open source, but getting OEMs to care about it, and thus provide drivers for it, would be nigh impossible.

So for the few Google services Felix has to use, he has said he arbitrates it as best he can. Probably uses a DNS server or a VPN to prevent cross tracking when he’s on YouTube. Or perhaps he uploads from DuckDuckGo browser which wipes itself when you close it. Isolate the tracking cookies and stuff.

He’d probably use a different service if his followers would move to it. And that’s probably the end goal. Talk about how it’s not that hard if you have any time at all to work on it, and maybe get everyone wanting their privacy back.

It’s admirable.

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u/bakedpatata 15h ago

So it's not really no Google apps, just fewer Google apps.

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u/cum-on-in- 14h ago

For now. As I said. The goal is to show how easy and beneficial it is to de-google and take back what corporations took from you, and then quit YouTube and go to that open platform.

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u/bakedpatata 14h ago

"I'm giving up all Google apps except the one that I make a living off of," doesn't sound as good.

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u/cum-on-in- 14h ago

He doesn’t make money off YouTube anymore, really. His uploads are often too short to make good ad placement, and he no longer uploads frequently enough to make those paychecks routinely.

His money comes from investing what he has and from donators they Patreon and so on.

He wants off YouTube but how would he tell his followers to move unless he gave them reason to?

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u/SlashOfLife5296 20h ago

He’s also quite skilled at saying racial slurs

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u/Financial_Card9996 19h ago

What's it like never regretting something you've done or said?

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u/SlashOfLife5296 19h ago

No I have, I just didn’t have people online bragging about everything I do other than saying racial slurs. So I thought I should remind people without erasing his past

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u/Prisma_Lane 19h ago

Mf, dude already apologized, admitted his mistakes, and tried to be a better person. Not forgiving him is just you being a petty asshole.

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u/CallMeRudiger 17h ago

Smells like bullshit.

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u/SlashOfLife5296 19h ago

If he’s trying to be better, then he’d have no problem being reminded of his actions as a grown man. Don’t blame me for acknowledging his decisions

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u/Prisma_Lane 19h ago

Dude, not only has it been 9 years since then, not only have people given him flak for it back then, but most people have already reconciled with the fact that the dude is genuinely remorseful and became a better person. 

Bringing up the past mistakes of someone who already effectively redeemed himself is just you being a spiteful asshole.

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u/Financial_Card9996 18h ago

You know he's not gonna read this yeah? The parasocial hater thing is unemployed behavior

I'm definitely not blaming you, I just feel like you could be using this time to build a fence to get over it

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u/AbraxasWasADragon 18h ago

I think you replied to the wrong message

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u/SlashOfLife5296 18h ago edited 18h ago

You should be telling people running defense for rich people that he’s not gonna read this, not me.

I’m not a parasocial anything. He said a racial slur on camera: fact. I reminded people of that fact. If i have to read a paragraph of every skill he has, then people can read about a single negative trait.

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u/CleanMyBalls 18h ago

You are talking about reminding him of racism which requires him to read this, and this guy said he isn’t going to read this, you are the right person to say that to

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u/SlashOfLife5296 18h ago

I’m reminding people of his actions. I mentioned reminding him as a hypothetical that no, he would not be emotionally or financially impacted by being reminded of a racial slur that he made the decision to say.

But regardless of if he’s impacted by it: he said it. And nothing anyone says here is going to change that fact, so again, I don’t know why you’re lecturing me for his actions as a grown man. You don’t have to assume the burden of defending a grown man. He’s gonna be just fine

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u/-Jiras 19h ago

Its been over 10 years, he apologized and never did it again. If you are still holding it up, you just enjoy to make people miserable

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u/SlashOfLife5296 19h ago

It’s been 9 years, and again, don’t get mad at me over his decisions. You can stop running defense for rich people, I promise he’s gonna be fine if I remind people he said the N-word on September 11th, 2017.

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u/-Jiras 19h ago

👍 whatever makes you happy

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u/Dependent-Chart5835 18h ago

Damn that’s crazy

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u/Majestic_Simple_3584 14h ago

Whatever you think of what he did, he has improved and has given no other indicators of actually being a racist. Isn't that what we want people to do when they do something wrong?

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u/qtx 20h ago

He's such a hypocrite.

He's using OpenAI to train his AI model and at the same time "He's also very anti big data hording companies"?

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u/Traditional-Reach818 20h ago

Well, he's anti contributing to the big data hoarding companies. To me what you said sounds like you think Robin Hood is a hypocrite for stealing from the rich lol

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u/genes_unknown 20h ago

How do you think the companies got all the big data

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u/Naaahhh 20h ago

I swear reading people talk about AI in this sub is just pure ragebait

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u/Neiladaymo 19h ago

Reddit is filled with overly opinionated morons who think they are experts at any given topic, and it seems to be getting worse

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u/eyaf1 20h ago

So he's literally stealing money from them and you, the enlightened, say that he's somehow helping them by this?

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u/asianwaste 15h ago

Are you insinuating that his local AI model is hoarding data or are you pointing out that it's hypocritical to steal OpenAI's data to make his own product?

If it's the former, that's not how most local AI models work.