“tHe PrOgReSs hAs bEeN iNsAnE”

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    I have an entirely free LLM I regularly run locally on my SteamDeck. I didnt sign a contract for anything, I just downloaded it.

    I could power the Deck running the LLM indefinately with maybe $300 worth of solar panels and a camping grade power station.

    Now it ain’t nearly as fast as hooking in to an LLM thats being run on a data center, but that’s tool use, not contracting an outside firm.

    We can democratize this technology if we want to, we do not have to rely on environmentally destructive, oligarch enriching cloud computing.