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[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Can someone explain to mr why these people are buying Mac Minis to run this in a "safe" environment and then they go on and connect it to the internet and give the AI credentials to all their cloud accounts? This seems excessively moronic to me? Am I missing something?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 49 minutes ago

No, you're not missing anything.

They're morons.

Thats our ruling elite; a bunch of fucking morons with egos and low self awareness at best, literally child raping and murdering pedophiles at worst.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 hour ago

They are buying the Mac Minis since they are a cheap way to run a server where this would work. They aren't create a safe environment for AI, but an access point on local hardware.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Arm power efficiency, and unified ram at a fairly low price (at least compared to current ram pricing).

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

I don't think you're missing anything. I'm pretty sure this is the trend. People buy Mac Minis, probably don't even download a local model, FA, and FO.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They are slaves to trends and haven't thought about it even a little bit?

[–] rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

For AI, it's because they're the cheapest way to hook up tons of memory to a GPU.