No you pretty much have this wrong in fundamental way.

These websites are not using you to train their models. Google is using these websites to use you to train Google’s models.

Yeah but this is reddit Lemmy where nuance and discussions are down voted until they reach equilibrium with the lowest common denominator.

Treating statements like false dichotomies is central to that.

Being incapable of separating a topic from a sub discussion that touches on that topic, and applying critical thinking, is a staple of online communities these days.

Computational demands scale aggressively with model size.

And if you want a response back in a reasonable amount of time you’re burning a ton of power to do so. These models are not fast at all.

You are conveniently ignoring model size here…

Which is a primary impact on power consumption.

And any other processing and augmentation being performed. System prompts and other things that are bloating the token size …etc never mind the fact that you’re getting a response almost immediately for something that an at home GPU cluster (not casual PC) would struggle with for many minutes, this isn’t always a linear scale for power consumption.

You are also ignoring the realities of a data center. Where the device power usage isn’t the only power consumption of the location, cooling must be taken into consideration as well. Redundant power switching also comes with a percentage loss in transmission efficiency which adds to power consumption and heat dispersion requirements.

The big thing for me is privacy and control.

Plex requires Cloud access via accounts.

This is a sitting duck for subpoenas to mass punish media libraries once copyright holders get a more friendly government that cares less about citizens rights (which is coming up here soon).

Nothing about my jelly fin instance leaks my information to anyone else’s servers.

You can’t say the same about Plex.

Jellyfin is a fork of Emby.

But better.

Chrome has a massive market share and Google abuses that market share by breaking web standards, and pushing people towards Chrome because “the competition doesn’t work”.

They act in bad faith and abuse their position to more deeply entrench their position in anticompetitive monopolistic ways.

That’s the Crux of it.

Because that’s a typical demographics question for any survey worth it’s salt?

Interpreting MRI scans?

Translating language?

Object detection on assembly lines?

Object detection to sort recycling?

Identifying disease markers?

Classifying data?

…etc

Things that it’s been used for for ages now, and has become ubiquitous for.

It already has been applied to healthcare, and nearly every other industry, and has been for more than a decade.

The current LLM hype is the only thing most people know of when they hear “AI”. Which is a shame.

Peak hype-based ignorance 🤣

Being this confident while also not knowing how AI has been in use for more than the last decade, and going off on a rant on AI mistakes when a defining feature of AI is to solve problems that classical programming cannot, but without guaranteed results, is cringe AF

I mean, generally, it is.

It’s just that the uneducated masses don’t realize that “AI” outside of today’s LLMs has been improving our technological life for well over a decade now.

And so abused and misused for just as long. LLms and the hype and slop is a relatively new thing, this is old, useful, technology.

“Eradicated” is literally impossible, entire swathes of industries can only operate at the levels of efficiency they have come to rely on because of specialized models. And have for ages now, long before the hype and slop started.

Not every model is an LLM 🤦

My brother in Lemmy, how do you think they pay their engineers?

Would you rather them try and get revenue through advertising means? Because that’s what it sounds like, no decision is a decision.

Of all the things you could want from Firefox. Of all the possibilities.

The primary, only, thing you could come up with is “I don’t want privacy focused translation, because AI”

Without realizing the the grand majority of all translation tools that don’t suck have been AI driven for like 8+ years (Long, long, before LLMs of today).

This is why we can’t have nice things…

Found the person who only reads headlines!

Isn’t this a perfect foreign adversary opportunity for spying on U.S. political figures?

Just integrate your own robot dog, or compromise an existing one. And surveillance away.

The Reddit space is just a bunch of pictures of people’s home Labs it’s not really a self-hosted community at all.

It’s not interesting to explore and read like this one is.

It’s suffered from a common phenomena of any community that grows in popularity where it caters to the lowest common denominator and loses its niche.

Google should be subject to antitrust legislation regardless.

Their position as a monopoly is what enables this.

This is more of a symptom the cause is the monopolization of the internet largely by Google

Build it, don’t turn it on, watch all the residents complain about new ailments and conditions caused by the 5G.

Reveal that it’s never even been powered to really hammer home their ignorant bullshit.

The cognitively impaired should not be able to do this sort of shit.