I honestly forgot that i also put a question about training cost; by the question i meant when i asked about uses for ai, i didnt realize i made it unclear whether it was a question or not
I dont think a model that you have said is bad for the environment is a good example
Regarding the first sentence, i have said that this seems like a generic reply because i have not said that llms are the worst thing ever (even saying that their uses could offset the downsides) or that they do not have uses ("AI is just a tool" is also an argument i see so often, never with any explanation behind)
For such impressive technology, i doubt the best use of it is a better search engine that you have to fact check or writing help I have seen someone use a local model to control home assistant
I had a long reply written, but got deleted because my phone ran out of battery; i doubt any of our opinions about the existence and relevance of the discussed downsides would change if this was argued further anyways (and i am too lazy to rewrite the reply)
Your reply doesnt answer the question asked in my comment. You say its a tool, but didnt say what you use it for
(Also, the first sentence seems like a generic reply to any comment anti-ai, it doesnt say anything and its not even relevant in this situation; it only makes your arguments feel worse)
Using and talking positively of self hosted LLMs still promotes LLMs and convinces people to use them (most likely using services owned by large corporations) Its still something that can and has caused people to not trust their parents, doctors, believing what the chatbot says instead. Its still something that can and has caused people to kill others or themselves If used on the internet, it still contributes to it becoming worse (even without considering my first point) It isnt as bad, but it still has problems. Whether the use is worth it is something that i have not seen discussed at all (im really curious about the uses for llms, the technology seems cool with actual uses, but every example i have seen was terrible)
(Also, isnt the energy issue with the training, not the usage?)
A couple years ago, i found a video about a rhythm game with a cool story named vivid/stasis. Since i was curious about the story and it was free, i added it to my steam library
It took me a while to actually start playing game and its amazing
I only know of them banning lemmy.blahaj.place and saying its because the instance allowed people to talk about hurting other people (i assume its referring to the posts about attacking fascists)
Back in my day (1952), the uk government was forcing people that were amab to take oestrogen