Ok so you’d literally be making a regular Lenny post to some particular community on some particular instance in that case, right?

I’m a little lost. You mention hosting content on any instance, or on GitHub. How does that work? And if your content is elsewhere what is Lemmy doing? Authx?

Do you have any sources on this? I started looking around for pre-training, training and post-training impact of new input but didn’t find what I was looking for. In just my own experience with retraining (e.g. fine-tuning) pre-trained models, it seems to be pretty easy to add or remove data to get significantly different results than the original model.

I wonder how much “left-leaning” (a.k.a. in sync with objective reality) content would be needed to reduce the effectiveness of these kinds of efforts.

Like, if a million left-leaning people who still had Twiter/FB/whatever accounts just hooked them up to some kind of LLM service that did nothing but find hard-right content and reply with reasoned replies (so, no time wasted, just some money for the LLM) would that even do anything? What about similar on CNN or local newspaper comment sections?

It seems like there would have to be some amount of new content generated that would start forcing newly-trained models back toward the center unless the LLM builders were just bent on filtering it all out.

I like it for content discovery, but it feels weird to upvote bot posts. When I see something interesting enough to comment on I do try to see if there’s a similar article in a better community already or make cross-post.

I was asking rhetorically since the graph makes it pretty obvious, but actually re-reading this article it’s a bit more complex than I recalled. There was basically some legislation in the mid 1970s that made them possible, the model grew through the 80s, but by the late 80s low-rent HMOs had taken over, and a crippling combo of regulation (to create new barriers to entry) and deregulation (for the existing guys) basically cemented the for-profit HMO/PPO providers that we all know and love (haha) by the 1990s. Had we held out for another decade we probably would have seen socialized medicine by the Clinton-era, but instead we got this graph, where we pay more and get less than everyone else, and half the country thinks it’s a great idea.

Can you guess when HMOs became a thing (and Blue Cross converted from not-for-profit to for-profit)?

Damn, I’d actually watch the Olympics if they could do that.

I’m having trouble with the colors. It tornado alley low rate or no data. TBH either of those would seem weird for the area.