Comment by davidw

19 days ago

Yes, this is where it's at for me. LLM's are cool and I can see them as progress, but I really dislike that they're controlled by huge corporations and cost a significant amount of money to use.

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seanmcdirmid  19 days ago

Use local OSS models then? They aren’t as good and you need beefy hardware (either Apple silicon or nvidia GPUs). But they are totally workable, and you avoid your dislikes directly.

  • davidw  19 days ago

    "Not as good and costs a lot in hardware" still sounds like I'm at a disadvantage.

    • seanmcdirmid  19 days ago

      $3000 is not that much for hardware (like a refurbished MBP Max with decent amount of RAM), and you'd be surprised how much more useful a thing that is slightly worse than the expensive thing is when you don't have anxiety about token usage.

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bdangubic  19 days ago

> they're controlled by huge corporations and cost a significant amount of money to use.

is there anything you use that isn't? like laptop on which you work, software that you use to browse the internet, read the email... I've heard similar comment like yours before and I am not sure I understand it given everything else - why does this matter for LLMs and not the phone you use etc etc?

  • Gud  19 days ago

    I’ve used FreeBSD since I was 15 years old - Linux before that.

    My computer was never controlled by any corporation, until now.