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>>tablet+(OP)
This article does not touch on the thing which worries me the most with respect to LLMs: the dependence.

Unless you can run the LLM locally, on a computer you own, you are now completely dependent on a remote centralized system to do your work. Whoever controls that system can arbitrarily raise the prices, subtly manipulate the outputs, store and do anything they want with the inputs, or even suddenly cease to operate. And since, according to this article, only the latest and greatest LLM is acceptable (and I've seen that exact same argument six months ago), running locally is not viable (I've seen, in a recent discussion, someone mention a home server with something like 384G of RAM just to run one LLM locally).

To those of us who like Free Software because of the freedom it gives us, this is a severe regression.

>>cesarb+Zl
Yes, and it's even worse: if you think LLMs may possibly make the world a worse place, you should not use any LLMs you aren't self-hosting, because your usage information is being used by the creators to make LLMs better.

>>aaron_+Qn
> you should not use any LLMs you aren't self-hosting, because your usage information is being used by the creators to make LLMs better

This sounds a bit like bailing out the ocean.

>>MetaWh+JA2
so does voting.