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Silly me, I forgot that running an LLM model was so similar to cannibalism.
Thanks for showing that you have no actual arguments.
LLMs are inherently bad for society in their current form. They have no real benefit. They push capital extraction and further increase the pressure on workers. They have insane energy requirements, insane hardware requirements. We are working on saving our planet and can absolutely not spare the massive amounts of energy required for this shit.
You did it first by jumping to "think of the children!" And analogizing running a program to cannibalism.
No need to ban them, then. Nobody will use them if this is true.
I run them locally on my computer, I know this is factually incorrect through direct experience.
Personal experience aside, if running an LLM query really required "insane" energy and hardware expenditures then why are companies like Google so eager to do it for free? These are public companies whose mandates are to generate a profit. Whatever they're getting out of running those LLM queries must be worth the cost of running them.
I see you've switched from "think of the children!" To "think of the environment!"
I haven't looked into many LLMs, but Microsoft will use your data for training the next version of Copilot. If you're a paying enterprise customer, then your data won't be used for that.
I suspect Google is also using every bit of data they can get their hands on. They have a habit of handing out shiny new stuff in exchange for your data. That's exactly why Android and Chrome don't require your money.