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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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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Afaik most people who seriously want to have a local LLM start of off a pre-trained one from the internet..?