This is not unique, unfortunately. I have been battling with them for the last two months now and I am in the process of moving everything away from DigitalOcean. Something has changed over there and they have zero tolerance concerning everything.
My account was overdue by $10 (after being paid on time for close to 5 years), I asked for a deadline extension of 1 week and it was declined. They have already turned off all of my droplets and are now threatening to delete everything with no recourse within the next three days.
Again, not unwilling to pay, I was merely asking for an extension by 7 days for $10 and they declined my request.
This very much sounds like silent sacking that is happening at a lot of big companies. That way they do not have to say they are doing layoffs - https://changelog.com/podcast/573
This sounds like a made-up concern to me or am I missing something?
"One Fortune 500 executive recently told me that they were worried that one organization could use a public LLM to learn what its competitors were asking that same LLM. For example, one pharmaceutical company using ChatGPT4 or similar for corporate espionage could essentially spy on its competitor’s research queries. A public LLM aggregates the data of the prompt itself and which user initiated that prompt. So, by asking about a certain company’s research, that data can become part of the public record."
This is the repository for distil-small.en, a distilled variant of Whisper small.en. It is the smallest Distil-Whisper checkpoint, with just 166M parameters, making it the ideal choice for memory constrained applications (e.g. on-device).