It’s me, Smee

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Cake day: March 24th, 2025

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  • All these chat bots are a massive amalgamation of the internet

    A bit but a lot no. Role-playing models have specifically been trained (or re-trained, more like) with focus on online text roleplay. Medically focused models have been trained on medical data, DeepSeek have been trained on Mao’s little red book, companion models have been trained on social interactions and so on.

    This is what makes models distinct and different, and also how they’re “brainwashed” by their creators, regurgitating from what they’ve been fed with.




  • I’ve successfully ran small scale LLM’s on my phone, slow but very doable. I run my main AI system on an older, midrange gaming PC. No problems at all.

    Dicio is a pre-programmed assistant, which one can talk to if one has speech recognition software installed. It has a preset of tasks it can do, in my experience it’s quite incomparable to how LLM’s work.


  • It very much depends on your phone hardware, RAM affects how big models can be and CPU affects how fast you’ll get the replies. I’ve successfully ran 4B models on my 8GB RAM phone, but since it’s the usual server and client setup which needs full internet access due to the lack of granular permissions on Android (Even AIO setups needs open ports to connect to itself) I prefer a proper home server. Which, with a cheap GFX card, is indescribably faster and more capable.










  • It’s a bit of both from what I gather. I.e. The Golden State killer was caught through GEDmatch and 23AM users have to manually upload their DNA profile to GEDmatch. On the other hand GEDmatch gave unrestricted, undisclosed access to law enforcement to dig throught their database until users started complaining and it became opt-in to allow LE access.

    Fun fact, GEDmatch is now owned by Qiagen which operates in around 25 countries. I wonder how many DNA profiles they have access to. I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve mapped the entire human species to some degree.