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[–] technomad@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 months ago (15 children)

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] jonjuan@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month 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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