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Ethics of Local LLMs: A Response to Zuckerberg's ''Open Source AI Manifesto''
the “Open Source AI Manifesto” Mark Zuckerberg has been hated by Richard Stallman for decades and he is the only person who appears on both cover image of the video essays: How the Internet was Stolen and How AI was Stolen by Then & Now. However, things has changed recently after his adoption of the Fediverse and open-sourcing of Llama continuously. In Zuckerberg’s latest “Open Source AI Manifesto”, he stated 5 needs of open-source:...
Experimenting Lip Syncing Deepfake Tools
AI-Generated content can be fun or “slop” according to Simon Willison, but also can be malevolent due to its abuse in phishing attacks. Some of my readers may have already known that recently I’m working on a side project , which based onchatgpt-html and uses LLMs to detect phishing emails. I think at some point, the tool should be able to detect phishing attempt from video content too. Because deepfake technology is so accessible nowadays and its generated content can be quite convincing....
Updating ThinkPad C13 Yoga
2024 Update MrChromebox.tech had a major update a few month ago, so I decide to move on as well. But before that, use Clonezilla or rsync -aHAXS to back up the 32 GB emmc first. Run in terminal, install “Full UEFI Firmware” cd; curl -LO mrchromebox.tech/firmware-util.sh && sudo bash firmware-util.sh After reboot, a full version of coreboot is installed, by replacing the previous SeaBIOS which is partial and limited. This makes this laptop now with a free firmware....
Dehaunting OnePlus Nord N30 5G
Last year, I bought a Metro locked Oneplus Nord N30 5G (CPH2513/CPH2515) for $60 during a very slick deal. However, this phone was completely unusable due to it is haunted with tons of bloatware and spyware. So I decided to let it sit in a drawer for 180 days and then see what I can do with it. A few days ago, I unlocked it by simply go to About Phone then click Unlock....
A Deep Dive into Voice Cloning with SoftVC VITS and Bert-VITS2
A Deep Dive into Voice Cloning with SoftVC VITS and Bert-VITS2 In the previous post, I have tried a little bit of TTS Generation WebUI and found it’s interesting. So, I decide to train a usable model with my own voice. This voice cloning project explores both SVC for Voice Changing and VITS for Text-to-Speech. There is no one tool does all jobs. I have tested several tools for this project....