It’s not expensive for me to run a local LLM, I just use the hardware I’m already using for gaming. Electricity is cheap and most people with a gaming PC probably use more electricity gaming than they would running their own LLM and asking it some questions.

I don’t personally know the monetary cost of running one of these things locally, and I should be more informed before I make sweeping statements.

I’m also against shoving AI in evening, and not making it Opt-In. I’m also worried about privacy and concentration of power etc.

Then we are on the same page

But just outright saying LLMs are bad is rediculous.

I didn’t say that, in fact I said that I didn’t have a problem with them as a concept, go back to the previous point for a reason why someone might have instant dislike of “AI”

And saying there is no good reason to use them is rediculous. Can we stop doing that.

I also didn’t say that. I just said your examples weren’t good uses of it. I happen to think that there are very good applications for this technology, but none of those are publicly available GenAI slop and soulless automation systems/assistants that are really just corporate spyware to collect advertising data.

If you want a “smart home” with voice commands because it make you feel like Tony Stark talking to Jarvis go right ahead, but don’t pretend that your locally run LLM is what people are talking about when they level criticism against “AI” (or even if they just say ‘AI bad’)