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Would AI Be Hated As Much If It Wasn't As Resource Intensive? (lemmy.world)
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If LLMs used very little RAM and processing power, was light weight even for Mythos or Sol, would people be as opposed? Like no data centers, no memory shortages, like it was able to run on a calculator with the same performance.

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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

AI is great! it just needs a little work on the IP theft, the environmental impact, the dopamine addiction, the cornering of the component market, the reliability, the hidden system prompts, the non-determinism, the push to have everything in the cloud, the enshittification, the empowerment of the billionaires, the reduction in user’s cognitive abilities, the lack of real-world use cases, the reliability, the spying on humans intimate thoughts, the overblown marketing, the bubble impact on the world economy, and the reliability. Other than that, it’s just fine! Trust me, bro!

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The same can be said about LITERALLY every technology ever made. Everything you listed is real, problems that need to be addressed, and the companies responsible for exacerbating them held accountable.

    A technologies worst implementations are not representative of its usefulness.

    Unless you want to ban the entire field of biology as well for the atrocities committed associated with it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah transformer models are cool.

    But you cannot separate the industry from the tech in this case. The reason it’s so bad is because it’s being misused and it’s everywhere, even where it shouldn’t be.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    No, that's not true. Universities have been making their own models. Private individuals have been making their own models. The most famous ones are, of course, purely corporate. But claiming that the tech is inseparable from the corporation is demonstrably incorrect.

    Evo 2 was recently used in a revolutionary antibiotic research paper, which is entirely open source and trained and public data. Is that also corporate?

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