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We're destroying the environment for this folks
Except for local LLMS.
No one in this post about Google is talking about local LLMs.
i was trying to say Local LLMS dont destroy the environment(cause its using the power of your pc instead)
Training the models still uses a vast amount of resources
well atleast every prompt you ask it wont harm the environment
If you are browsing Piefed you are probably using about 10-20% of your computer's resources (if it is a computer capable of running a 4B model).
When you question the model and it pegs your system out, that is between 5 and 10 TIMES more resource utilization and power waste just to have a question answered that you could have taken the time to research, improve your own critical thinking skills, and learned something without changing your utilization at all.
Not counting the training debt.
i forgot about critical thinking, hehe.
but i hope my use of AI doesnt ruin it that much.
btw the best respones here.
"I'm not the one deforesting the amazon but I really love teak furniture, so I'M not the one hurting anybody by buying it"
Yeah, but Google search isn't using local models.
sadly true
Your computer uses more power when the GPU is "thinking" than when its idle, so there would still be environmental damage.
No? If everyone who uses LLMs globally switched over to a local LLM (after buying the necessary hardware), that'd still be a crazy amount of energy usage, just less centralised.
More energy actually.
nah like using the current Gaming PC/Laptop you have, Like Intel CPU + intergrated graphics or smth.
I suppose, but that's a very different class of model. I think a more important question might be whether people actually need LLMs at all.
this is personal preference ig.
What I'm saying is that not all local LLMs are more power efficient, and that we are currently massively over-using the technology for things it isn't all that useful for.
i see
There are so many better tools for this kind of thing.
like what?
plus i tend to use a search engine more often if i can find what i want.
For counting letters in a word? That's like a one line expression in Python or JavaScript (and other languages). JavaScript console is right there in your browser.
if javascript can do it,tell me how to do it?
There's probably a more elegant way to do it.
nice to know that does not need AI ig
Good to see so many people misunderstanding how local hosting works.
Running your own local LLM is no worse than running a graphically intensive game like cyberpunk 2077 or red dead redemption 2.
thats what i was thinking
Yes. But compared to the number of people who currently use LLMs, not that many have hardware capable of doing that.