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i saw a post saying i'm "probably too stupid to understand" that altbot is harmful and that i "mean well" but don't get it.
i've spent the last week listening to feedback from blind users, turning off altbot temporarily to amplify their voices, experimenting with new approaches, asking for input. i made deliberate choices to run local models instead of cloud APIs for privacy. i tracked power consumption because i care about environmental impact. i funded a server partly out of pocket and partly through community donations specifically so i could say for certain that nothing leaves the machine.
i chose a 24gb vram constraint over using massive proprietary models because ethics and privacy mattered more than capability.
you can criticize altbot. you can say it causes more harm than good, that's fair and i've been processing that feedback. but "too stupid to understand" when i've been publicly working through this in real time? thats just... mean. and on top off me currently moving to a different continent? leaving my friends and family behind, going to somewhere where I don't know if I will find satisfaction and friends again..
things are hard. and when things are hard words tend to hurt more.
I'm trying. that's more than a lot of people do. but its all I can do.
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Keep doing your good work. To many here, politics is far more important than mere facts; those people will not hear arguments, their only desire is to prove you wrong. They are not arguing in good faith, anything AI related is bad by definition. As long as it's AI, curing cancer is basically equivalent in amount of required outrage to operating gas chambers.
In this polarized world, this happens everywhere, but it's much more common on a platform where a significant number of users literally migrated because they hated the owner of the site they used before.