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Why do people host LLMs at home when processing the same amount of data from the internet to train their LLM will never be even a little bit as efficient as sending a paid prompt to some high quality official model?

inb4 privacy concerns or a proof of concept

this is out of discussion, I want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one. I don't care about anything else than quality of generated answers

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[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 17 points 1 year ago

want someone to prove his LLM can be as insightful and accurate as paid one.

The full DeepSeek model is available for download, and should generate about the same quality answers as the official one, with the bonus of less censorship. I pretty trivially got it to talk about the Tiananmen Square, and they can't even ban me for it.

That said, that's rarely the point. It's usually because you can, a cost saving measure, sometimes you plainly just don't need a good model, sometimes you want privacy, sometimes you need privacy at the cost of quality.

If your business is shoving customer reviews into a model, you really don't need the best model for it to tell you how angry the customer is.

Personally I just do it for fun and because I can. Sometimes you just do things for no other reason than because you can.