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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Also the incessant ammounts of power/energy that they consume.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Running an llm llocally takes less power than playing a video game.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The training of the models themselves also takes a lot of power usage.

[–] jonjuan 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They are using open source models that have already been trained. So no extra energy is going into the models.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Of course, I mean the training of the original models that the function is dependent on. It's not caused by VLC itself of course.

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