minus-squareDocRekd@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying OfflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFor the same reason SaaS is popular in general: yes, you could get a VPS, install all the needed software on it, keep it up to date, oor you could pay a company to do all that for you. linkfedilink
minus-squareDocRekd@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying OfflinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoNowdays LLM can be ran on consumer hardware, so the "dead battery" analogy fall short here too. linkfedilink
For the same reason SaaS is popular in general: yes, you could get a VPS, install all the needed software on it, keep it up to date, oor you could pay a company to do all that for you.