I'm starting to get a new sense of which people LLMs are useful for. I'm sure they're life-changing for those with intelligence below that of a child, so I'm glad for you that you have this tool available now.
This is obviously false on the face of it. Let’s say I have a patent, song, or a book that that I receive large royalty payments for. It would obviously not be logical for me be in favor of abolishing something that’s beneficial to me.
Declaring that your side has a monopoly on logic is rarely helpful.
If you are looking for a open source Chat WebUI with support for OIDC, maybe you are interested in the one we are building?[0]
We are leveraging oauth2-proxy for the login here, so it should support all OIDC-compliant IDPs, and there are some guides by oauth2-proxy on how to configure for all the bigger providers. We do have customers using it with e.g. Azure, Keycloak, Google Directory.
I see you have a dockerfile.combined - is this built and served via gh artifacts? I can try it out.
Pros: Open source, and focus on lightweight. This is good.
Cons: "customers" - Ugh, no offense, but smells of going down the same path as "open" webui, with the services expanding to fill enterprise use cases, and simplicity lost.
LLMs.py seems to be focussing purely on simplicity + OK with rewriting for it. this + 3bsd is solid ethos. Will await their story on multi-user, hosted app. They have most of the things sorted anyway, including RAG, extensions, etc.
> I see you have a dockerfile.combined - is this built and served via gh artifacts? I can try it out.
Our recommended way of deploying is via Helm[0] with latest version listed here[1].
> with the services expanding to fill enterprise use cases, and simplicity lost.
TBH, I don't think that simplicity was lost for OpenWebUI because of trying to fill enterprise needs. Their product has felt like a mess of too many cooks and no consistent product vision from the start. That's also where part of our origin story comes from: We started out as freelancers in the space and got inquiries to setup up a Chat UI for different companies, but didn't deem OpenWebUI and the other typical tools fit for the job, and too much of a mess internally to fork.
We are small team (no VC funding), our customers end-users are usually on the low-end of AI literacy and there is about ~1 DevOps/sysadmin at the company our tool is deployed, so we have many factors pushing us towards simplicity. Our main avenue of monetization is also via SLAs, so a simple product for which we can more easily have test coverage and feel comfortable about the stability is also in our best interest here.
There's no unions for H1B workers. If there's any union stepping up for their interest, it would find mass enrollment tomorrow. Unfortunately, there isn't support by non-h1b engineers, let alone unions.
I am a non-h1b engineer and I declare it is in my best interest to advocate for h1-b engineers. Otherwise management would simply calculate why would they hire me and treat me well when they can hire a more desperate h1b holder and treat them like trash.
Rocking the boat so much as to get fired, fail to find another employer before the visa expires, and be sent back home? A terrifying perspective for many.
Just to clarify that the parent may have edited, but wrote "non-H1B" workers, so they would be speaking about domestic / citizen employees, not ones on visa.
> Most people who appreciate art appreciate not only the art itself, but the time and skill that went into its creation.
I call BS on this. Most people like something striking or beautiful or thought proviking. For the vast majority, the time or skill barely comes into context. You meant connoisseurs perhaps.
That might be part of the equation, but for many it’s a strong gut reaction to having the work of themselves and others taken without consent, turned into the visual equivalent of pink slime and press-formed into other shapes, and sold as a service. It just feels wrong. Even I get a little squeamish thinking about it, and I only do art in a minor/hobby capacity — it’s something I’ve put time into, but it doesn’t pay my bills.
If training were purely ethical, the creative community probably still wouldn’t love generative AI, but it probably wouldn’t hate it nearly as much either. It’s the cavalier attitude towards violation of consent for the sake of profit that really seals the deal.
In what way? It certainly does not mean the same thing to a developing artist as it does in the context on an LLM, so I do not even know why people bother with this wordsmithing.
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