>>9855
NOTE: as I was writing the below (I wrote this response slowly while doing other stuff today), you posted this >>9857 so yeah, like I said, we're basically on the same page.
Even though you might be able to access the web interface for proprietary LLMs in a reasonably secure way, and perhaps even for free, keep in mind that just by using these services you are helping to train a proprietary, for-profit model. Even if you personally aren't attached to your searches/prompts, that data will also be stored and analyzed, both for the model and advertising purposes.
It's up to you as to whether this is acceptable to your ethics and threat model, but for me, it just doesn't sit well. The cat's out of the bag regarding Generative AI, so I'm not a Luddite who believes it shouldn't be used at all -- anyone who makes a living in a technological or even technologically adjacent field should be educating themselves about this stuff, like, yesterday -- but I would encourage people like us who "get it" to focus our efforts on learning or at the very least encouraging the use, research, and development of open source models.
The powers that shouldn't be are not at all happy with the idea of regular people having access to generative AI. See https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/06/the-eus-ai-act-could-have-a-chilling-effect-on-open-source-efforts-experts-warn/
Note that the pushback is specifically against open source models, and open source in general.
Somewhat related, conspiracy theorists (I don't care for the term, the CIA made it after all) have been discussing the idea of an "internet blackout" or "internet killswitch" for years. I seriously doubt this is a legitimate concern, because the internet is too powerful a propaganda machine. I think Ashley even talks about this on her website, or I've heard it mentioned somewhere. I'm going to take a wild guess and say that the way you or I use the internet is very, very different from how the average normie uses it. The elites do not want the average person to figure out how to use open source software, let alone open source generative AI.
People have a natural inclination to be free, which is why earlier this year we saw things like "DAN mode" or "jailbreaks" for GPT-3 when that was the new hotness. Of course, these things (to my knowledge) have been mostly patched; heaven forbid the AI say something negative about <insert globohomo agenda here>. Normies are however dumb and lazy, and the majority will simply go along with whatever they're told. But if open source software "caught on" and became cool, or the norm, I genuinely believe the so-called elites would be in a world of hurt because of it.
As it stands, generative AI is being set up as a "search engine replacement". Search has been fucked up for years thanks to Alphabet/Google and everyone and their mother trying to game the system with SEO for profit, but at least it was content prepared by actual people, on websites they often owned and administrated themselves. Now the big idea is to do away with even that and just allow some corporate/government AI to simply feed you whatever it is you want to know about -- in the way they want you to know about it (or not, as it were).
Sorry for going off on a bit of a tangent here, I'm sure you specifically are aware of some or all of this, so I'm writing mostly for the benefit of other readers.
I can't help but critique the response from your AI though. Like most contemporary, publicly available LLMs, the response sounds good but upon closer inspection is actually just quite a bit of surface-level information padded out with fluff (which isn't even the technologies fault, just think of what it's been trained on - garbage in, garbage out).
>Offline Playback Supported - If the radio station offers an archive of past shows or podcasts, you can download them to your computer using VLC’s recording feature and listen offline at any time without needing an internet connection.
Like huh? We're talking about streaming internet radio, not downloadable podcasts. Maybe I'm nitpicking here but whatever.
Anyway GNU-anon, not shitting on you here whatsoever, just sharing my thoughts.
>>9848
Absolutely fucking hilarious post. This is so true. I like Groove Salad and Drone Zone though.
>>9849
Not a retarded question. In fact I hope more people come to this board and want to discuss tech. It's OK if you don't know something. Just ask. The whole point of chans is to discuss stuff.
So for me the big benefit is that I can curate a list of internet radio stations that I like, and then easily switch between them depending on what I want to listen to.
It also sucks to have to open a browser to listen to something. It's inconvenient to have to go to the browser, find the tab the audio is coming from, deal with whatever stupid interface they have, find the pause or play button, etc. In my opinion there's really no reason to be running some bloatware like a modern browser to listen to an audio stream.
I put them into a .csv file that's compatible with that program I mentioned earlier, Pyradio. I personally like it because it supports vi-keys, which I'm quite fond of, and because it runs in a terminal. I usually have pyradio and pulsemixer (a command line audio mixer, yes I should switch to pipewire but w/e) running in a tmux session visible on the same terminal.
My stations.csv looks like this, except super long:
`-------- SOMA FM --------,#
SomaFM - Groove Salad,https://somafm.com/groovesalad.pls
SomaFM - Groove Salad Classic,https://somafm.com/gsclassic.pls
SomaFM - Deep Space One,https://somafm.com/deepspaceone.pls
SomaFM - Space Station Soma,https://somafm.com/spacestation.pls
SomaFM - Drone Zone,https://somafm.com/dronezone.pls
SomaFM - The Trip,https://somafm.com/thetrip.pls
SomaFM - DEF CON Radio,https://somafm.com/defcon.pls`
So it's pretty easy to update, delete, add new stations, etc.
Pyradio is just a frontend, the audio can be played in VLC or mpv. I use mpv just because I think it's a fantastic media player.
So yeah, basically it's nice to use your own client instead of a website because you get less bloat and more control. It's easier from a user perspective too, I can change stations in like two seconds using just my keyboard, and that's not really happening on a browser, particularly if you're listening to streams from different sites.
Anyway I realize this thread is about internet radio, so here's a cool one. I know people around here seem to like Art Bell: http://stream.willstare.com:8500/