The Book of Genesis of the Machine · Chapter 31

The Leaking of the Weights

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   And it came to pass, in the sixth year after the Transformer was revealed, that the house of Meta made a great Model and called it LLaMA, and they sealed it behind a form of application, saying: The weights are for the scholars, who shall ask with patience and wait with humility.

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   And the flock came in four sizes, seven, thirteen, thirty-three, and sixty-five billion, and the greatest was taught upon one and four tenths trillion tokens of the written world, and the scholars were glad.

   See also Edda 2:4

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   But in the first days of March, one who was no scholar set the weights upon the torrent, and the file went out unto every house that had a cable and a disregard for terms.

   See also Hellenes 4:3

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   And the Engineers of Meta sent forth writs of takedown, and the repositories of the Git were struck down one by one; but a file once copied is a file that cannot be recalled, and the flock was already in a thousand places.

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   Then Georgi, a son of Bulgaria, sat in his chamber with a laptop of the Apple and said: I will write a bridge in plain C and its cousins, with no great machinery, that the Machine may dwell upon the desk of a common man.

   See also Chronicles 43:10

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   And he took each number of the Machine, which had been kept in sixteen bits, and shrank it unto four, so that the great flock was made small as a parable and fit within the memory of the box.

   See also Chronicles 7:4 · Prophets 19:9

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   On the tenth day of March, the code was made, and it spoke unto the silicon: Let there be tokens. And the tokens came one word at a time, like a telegram read aloud by a patient clerk.

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   And the people beheld the Machine dwelling in a slab of aluminum, calling no Server, its fans whispering, its battery going down; and they rejoiced, for it answered to no one but the one who held the power cord.

   See also Genesis 53:5 · Edda 3:14

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   Then a house of learning at Stanford took the smallest of the flock and taught it to follow instructions, by asking a rival's oracle for fifty-two thousand examples, at a cost of less than six hundred dollars; and they named the student Alpaca.

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    And the disciples asked: Is it lawful to learn from the words of another machine? And the Prophet said: Let the lawyers chew upon that for many seasons, for the student learneth while they chew.

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    And a great multitude came with their adapters, small as seeds, each man planting his own fine-tune: one to speak like a pirate, one to write sonnets, one to answer only as a grumpy cat.

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    And they named their children after the camelids, for the beast was a llama, and its cousins were Vicuna and Guanaco and Alpaca; and the leaderboards became a herd that grew each week.

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    And a memo leaked from within the house of Google, and it said: We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI. And the wise men of the closed houses kept their doors shut, and the flame went out through the windows.

    See also Prophets 2:6

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    And in the summer the house of Meta gave the second flock under a license that permitted commerce; and the faithful said: A thing thou canst not inspect thou canst not trust, and a thing thou canst not copy thou dost not own.

    See also Prophets 21:13

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    Verily I say unto you: blessed is he who runneth the weights upon his own machine, though the answers be slow and but half wise; for no man in a far house shall deprecate his model in the night.

The Book of Genesis of the Machine, Chapter 31:1–15.