[Leomuck]

Well, such things were to be expected. It's easy to bash on all the people who haven't gotten the necessary IT understanding of securing such things. Of course, it's uber-dumb to run an unprotected instance. But at the same time, it's also quite cool that so many people can do interesting IT stuff now. I'm thinking basically it's a trade-off. Be able to do great stuff, live with the consequences of doing that without proper training. Like repairing your car yourself. You might have fun doing it, it might get you somewhere, but you have to accept that if you have no idea about cars, you just introduced a pretty big risk into your life (say if you replaced the brakes or something). But yea, security, privacy, fighting climate change, all very much on the decline - humans doing cool things, ignoring important things - we'll have to live with the consequences.

[paulhebert]

Gonna be honest. I'd rather fight climate change than have people run LLMs unsecured

[Xunjin]

Yeah... The bill is already being paid. I wonder how the life quality of my nephew (and other children) of 5 years old today will be in the near future..

[shaky-carrousel]

Decades, decades, telling us to save energy. Removing screensavers, replacing lightbulbs with ugly CFL first and color distorted LED lamps after. Trying to save energy to save the planet. And now, all of that to the toilet because some morons decided to play with talking robots.

Yesterday I did care. Today? Not so much. Welcome climate change, we fully deserve it.

[tdeck]

You forgot cryptocurrency. At least some of this LLM stuff is genuinely useful.

[throwatdem12311]

The biggest problem is the people who don’t have the necessary IT understanding to secure such things are probably completely unaware this is even happening.

[butlike]

With your car example, you also assume the risk unto others. If your "chopper" of a car hits and kills someone else, and you survive, you're paying for the consequences of that. I don't think it's cool that untrained people can do interesting IT stuff now. I see it as a huge liability where some unsecured instance pwns the internet, then it's some 12 year old that gets marched in front of congress and everyone goes: "wtf?" There's essentially no accountability and the damage is still done.