yeah, well, this is what I mean by the inherent problems. The open models still hallucinate, they are still probability-driven. Even when guided by RAG and other precautions, it still is only as good as those supporting elements can offer (assuming they are high-quality themselves).

On balance, I do not understand how this kind of tool will help officers in the field unless it is to advise on procedures for the officer to follow. Not trying to interpret situations as offenses or not, not trying to be a pocket legal interpreter.

I only suggest that whomever decided to try this for VicPD is being supported by a LLM geek that probably at least cares how well the models are performing. They seem to understand what kind of safeguards should exist for this type of thing to exist in this space… I personally doubt its good enough, but I rather see this than ChatGPT.

It sounds like they are running self-hosted Ollama with custom RAG.

If I believe Vic PD description of what they’ve made available, its probably one of the best possible situations. Someone who knows LLMs and understand what they are has created a relatively thoughtful implementation, its not just because some braindead executive wants to get in bed with Google.

It still has a lot of the problems and should be scrutinized heavily, but at least they aren’t piping their data into Grok or anyone else for that matter.

Yes, agree.

Specifically, ChatGPT-flavoured slop on this article

Cool. How does he plan to male that happen?

By acting like a cunty little bitch? Because thats been really effective so far.

Oh, so you agree with me then? This is effectively the problem that I’m pointing to.

We have so many natural resourced that we could make into products. The wholesale of raw materials to other countries is the stupidity.

Just stop all that. We can, and should, make high-quality goods.

OK. Well then pay cheeto-man his bribe and get your own subsidy. it’s not hard to figure it out.

Yes. I had one on my ankle last year. I think I paid $200. That wasn’t even to the hospital, is was for my crutches and aircast at the pharmacy.

This is such a fundamentally stupid idea in the first place. It proves the legislators are thoughtless morons on the subject.

Yes, lets compell ALL providers to create and maintain very desirable targets (dossiers of user’s personal data and all activity) and also compell access for the incompetent RCMP to get it whenever they like. Let’s also understand that Canada has already passed a law to make sure they can never be held responsible if they fail to properly protect that data on their end.

Oh don’t forget, they don’t mind at all if the providers give them MORE than they ask for, volunarily. Nothing weird about that, I’m sure that explicitly stated and intentionally placed soft spot will never be misused. They are going to take all this data, and shove it into an LLM and then god-knows-what.

I guess now I get serious about I2P and other options to move my activity off the surface web, given that VPNs will be pointless now. And so I need to think about what of my online activity that I can accept the government collecting, understanding that they WILL misuse it and fail to protect it.

I hope Proton goes big-brain and uses that ‘voluntary data’ loop-hole to pollute the data of whatever it is forced to share.