• ExLisper@linux.community
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    11 months ago

    What? They are not just generating this word in a loop. The model still calculates probability for each repetition, just like for any other query. It’s as expensive as other queries which is definitely not free.

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      11 months ago

      The model still calculates probability for each repetition

      Which is very cheap.

      as expensive as other queries which is definitely not free

      It’s still very cheap, that’s why they allow people to play with the LLMs. It’s training them that’s expensive.

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        11 months ago

        Yes, it’s not expensive but saying that it’s ‘one of the easiest tasks a computer can do’ is simply wrong. It’s not like it’s concatenates strings, it’s still performing complicated calculations using on of the most advanced AI techniques known today and each query can be 1000x times more expensive than a google search. It’s cheap because a lot of things at scale are cheap but pretty much any other publicly available API on the internet is ‘easier’ than this one.