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Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And I don't see that changing. :( And in no case are loads of people going to get into local AI. Lotta nerds around here, but Joe on the street barely knows what AI is, and he certainly doesn't have a PC any longer.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

At best a macbook air/neo or equivalent on windows good enough to browse the average web and the gamer joe will have a gpu with ~8GB vram for most games (aka 3070 or something like that)