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Forgot to mention Twitter, my bad. I'm aware (and mildly bewildered) that a lot of cutting-edge discussion happens on there, but I'm not keen on using it, and my great country provides a trivial inconvenience to not use it. My main reason for continuing to read Zvi is exactly because he gives Twitter links where needed so I don't have to actually use Twitter myself. Thanks for the subreddit pointer, I'll look for some more subs in this vein, they're bound to exist.
As for 4chan, most AI posting happens on /g/. Given it's a general technology board, there's no easy way to filter AI content - a lot of anons are clamoring for an /ai/ board, and e.g 2ch does have one - but there are almost always some scattered AI-related threads, as well as dedicated, continuously posted generals like /lmg/ for local models. You can search specific terms (OpenAI, Gemini, etc) from the search box in the catalog to find the OPs of threads containing them. Threads come and go, but general threads usually have a separate "tag" in the name which is always reposted, so you can search e.g /lmg/ to quickly find the current one. Their OPs also tend to link back to previous threads which get pushed off the board once they hit the bump limit. For deeper search, you can use desuarchive to trawl through archived threads.
Since this is still 4chan, you're not usually going to get cut and dry stuff and may have to sift through shitposting and NSFW, especially considering the posters' main use case for LLMs (spoiler: ERP). You also can't really use it as a content delivery pipeline like Twitter, you'll have to manually pick and read threads. Still, crowd-sourced autism is a helluva thing and the median poster has a lot of practical experience with wrangling LLMs, /lmg/ in particular is IMO unironically at the cutting edge of local model development. The format is also entertaining in general, though your mileage may vary.
I'm a dinosaur and use imageboards for a long time so dated UI was never an issue for me personally. 4chanX exists and reportedly improves the experience but I never tried it.
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