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#1 Depends on what you're competing with.

I, for example, like to use "AI" to assist me in writing NSFW short stories. Can't do that with any of the public ones without hitting the guard rails HARD. Even with extreme prompt massaging, the AI will start to moralise and editorialise the actions so much it's affecting the output.

As for #2, MacBooks are so ubiquitous it's a meme on itself. You can go into any classroom or fancy coffee place and I can bet you over 80% of the laptops there have an Apple logo and a good portion of those are new enough to have an M-series processor in it.

On the PC side you're right, even a semi-high end Intel/AMD CPU is not powerful enough to be practical for LLMs. You need a dedicated NVidia GPU for that and those are only in "gaming" laptops.




> "AI" to assist me in writing NSFW short stories. Can't do that with any of the public ones without hitting the guard rails HARD

It is actually not trivial to have a GPT-2 conversation that does not descend into NSFW. It will eagerly jump to guide you there at even the most remote opportunity.


With a local LLM yes, using any of the public services like gemini or OpenAI PGT3.5 or 4, it's currently nearly impossible.

It used to be possible to prompt engineer 3.5 to not moralise on every single thing, but can't be done anymore





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