Because of privacy reasons? Yeah I’m not going to spend a small fortune for that to be able to use these types of models.

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givinguflac a day ago | parent [-]

There are plenty of examples and reasons to do so besides privacy- because one can, because it’s cool, for research, for fine tuning, etc. I never mentioned privacy. Your use case is not everyone’s.

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wyre a day ago | parent [-]

All of those things you can still do renting AI server compute though? I think privacy and cool-factor are the only real reasons why it would be rational for someone to spend checks the apple store $19,000 on computer hardware...

	▲	givinguflac 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why do you look at this as a consumer? Have you never heard of businesses spending money on hardware???