When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn’t take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there’s full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it’s just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I’m not sure how I didn’t notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?
I don’t use ChatGPT, I use LM Studio which runs Local LLMs (it’s like AI you can run locally on your PC, I have solar and a solar battery so this means there’s no co2 emissions from my queries, I primarily use this for coding questions and practice, translations from Russian/Ukrainian/French, practising french, etc), then I use mistral AI second (french based), then third perplexity (american)
I also use Ecosia.org for searches as well
I asked mistralai/mistral-small-3.2 to elaborate on what you said, Is this what you meant?
The phrase “Let’s just keep adding more and more layers like a game of telephone!” is a metaphorical way of expressing skepticism or concern about the accuracy and reliability of information as it gets passed through multiple layers of interpretation, especially when involving AI systems.
Here’s what it likely means in this context:
Game of Telephone Analogy: In the classic “game of telephone” (or “Chinese whispers”), a message is whispered from one person to another in a line, and by the time it reaches the end, the original message is often distorted or completely changed due to mishearing, misinterpretation, or intentional alteration. The user is suggesting that relying on AI systems to search, summarize, or interpret web content might introduce similar layers of potential inaccuracies or biases.
Layers of Interpretation: The “layers” could refer to the steps involved in using an AI system to access and summarize information:
Concerns About Accuracy: The user might be implying that each additional “layer” (especially when involving AI) could introduce errors, biases, or misinterpretations, much like how a message gets distorted in the game of telephone.
Hostility Toward AI: Given the context you provided (Lemmy users being “strongly anti-AI”), this comment likely reflects a broader distrust of AI’s ability to accurately and reliably convey information without introducing new problems.
In essence, the user is cautioning against blindly trusting AI systems to handle information retrieval and summarization, suggesting that doing so could lead to a breakdown in accuracy or meaning, similar to how a message degrades in a game of telephone.
LM Studio looks cool, but I wonder, why their GUI app isn’t open-source? Also their site has careers section, where do they get money to operate like that? Couldn’t find anything about their monetization model.
I saw recently they are preparing for this
https://lmstudio.ai/blog/free-for-work
Commercial Plans
LM Studio is a conduit for open source models and AI software. It’s meant to be the first place you go to try new models, and a place where you can do professional grade work over months and years. In addition to the app, we’re also shipping the LM Studio SDK and recently the Hub. The LM Studio Hub is where you can share your LM Studio “stuff”: things you create within the app or with the SDK.
Putting all these things together, companies often have a need for fine-grained control over the models (and recently MCPs) their users can run, or require access control capabilities for various artifacts (presets, configurations, etc.) shared within the team.
Later this week, we will introduce a way to create a public Hub organization for your team, and use it with LM Studio at work (or school, or anywhere) for free. For companies that require more advanced features like SSO, model / MCP gating, and private collaboration: we are offering an Enterprise plan. A growing list of Fortune 500 companies, universities, and global organizations are already using LM Studio for Enterprise. If this sounds like something you need, contact us to get started.
In line with reducing friction for using LM Studio at work, we will also be introducing a simple self-serve Teams plan later this month that enables sharing various artifacts privately within your team. Sign up to be notified when it becomes available.