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.

  • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    There are 3 reasons people hate AI right now:

    1. Being used poorly and mostly resulting in slop, or malicious/unethical/deadly uses, and psychosis
    2. Being forced down the public’s throat and put into places where it adds no value, job losses, quality drops, plagiarism
    3. Datacenter/environmental concerns, part prices

    So switching to local AI fixes problem 3 (mostly). But we also need the hype bubble to pop so number 2 goes away. Unfortunately the first problem will be hardest to fix and right now requires the public backlash as new norms are being formed and bad actors need to be called out.

    That said, I think we’re about 1 to 3 years away from the bubble popping and everything starting to balance out to where AI is treated more like just a tool rather than a genie in a box. The hype will fade out and one or two of the big players will die, but at this point I don’t think generative AI use is going away