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The one you’re using with power in your own house already used enough power to run a city, so yeah…of course that one is getting disparaged.
And no, it doesn’t depend on the hardware. Thinking that a local llm only uses a portion of your gpu while games max them out is just ignorant. Games do not have to load up the entire vram and run the gpu at full power just to run a basic visual novel. An llm does both of those things, anytime you are using it. It’s absolutely nothing like a game.
Yeah, and the games you're playing spent literally years in development, with hundreds, if not thousands of developers, using their computers to create it. Not to mention rendering CGI for FMV, nor the servers to host multiplayer.
It definitely does depend on the hardware. You can use a local LLM without even a GPU, and using only a CPU. You've obviously never played Doom: Eternal, or Final Fantasy VII, or Grand Theft Auto V. What kind of lame person is paying a visual novel on a gaming PC? Talk about ignorant.
I'm just going to block you now. I'm tired of your ignorance claiming false things. Have a nice, AI-free life while playing your visual novels.
The visual novel was a joke reference to an LLM using up an entire gpu. It’s quite sad that you’re so addicted to LLMs that you don’t even notice your biases.
All of those things you listed take a fraction of the power of these models.