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• drunken_thor
  Sdks/libs, especially open source sdks, were never about gated knowledge. They were about the providing company making it as easy as possible for you to integrate. You would not need to know the idiosyncrasies behind api retries, paging, rate limits, auth flow, and on and on. The third party developers needed a resource, they call a method and get it. Open source libraries especially are about pooling knowledge, not gating it. This is propaganda for pooling that knowledge inside a service you have to pay to use, and instead of developers all using and improving the same codebase together, they have to spend money to rewrite the same code repeatedly. This is AI companies further trying to undercut open source because it’s free.
• hx8
  I don't understand why Open Knowledge Format improves interoperability, which is the main claim for its value. These LLMs are obviously advanced enough to navigate other MD file organization schemas like Obisidan, or other text files like Emacs Org.
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  rightbyte
  It seems beyond naive, rather malicious, to upload any useful private data to SaaS LLMs.Like, you are letting them data mine your business. Why are corporations not panicing over this?
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  dofm
  We are at the breathless-but-low-information-posts-about-plain-text-formats point in the cycle.
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  MelonUsk
  Yep, knowledge should not be gated:Imagine Google search without any links or sources namedThis is the “modern” AI chatbot:It never mentions the training data it used, in fact has no idea what it used (often FB, Reddit and partisan websites)Update: I added the reply about after the fact Googling chatbots do - it’s different
• Philpax
  The title suggested a far more interesting piece than the actual post. Alas.
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  internet2000
  Information wants to be free! I remember when that was the rallying cry of hackers. I miss those days.
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  bonoboTP
  AI generated article.
• 5701652400
  now that any software/knowledge is copyable given sufficient cash and AIs, gating knowledge migth be the only thing that protects your business. otherwise you do not have business.
• jdw64
  Personally, I think the ability to distinguish between all the knowledge that's overflowing is becoming a characteristic of the current establishment. In reality, the number of sites where you can get good information is extremely limited. It feels like we're in an era where discernment matters more.Most of it is just misinformation, after all. People say knowledge shouldn't be restricted, but now we have the opposite problem. There's so much information that just skimming through it takes too much time. On top of that, as we shift from text to video, getting information has become even harder. Compared to text, YouTube videos feel like they have much lower information density. I've heard that the TikTok generation's text literacy is declining, but maybe that's actually a social adaptation to process as much data as possible from low-density sourcesIn that sense, the efficiency of RAG ultimately comes down to what kind of good knowledge you're feeding into the AI.
• nephihaha
  Sadly it has been during most of human history. I think the establishment resents the masses becoming over educated. The 1990s internet had a wealth of views and information on it. Now you can only access approved sources via search engines thanks to scaremongering, and have CloudFlare monitoring everything you do.