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[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 84 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

If you have ever read the "thought" process on some of the reasoning models you can catch them going into loops of circular reasoning just slowly burning tokens. I'm not even sure this isn't by design.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Why would it be by design? What does that even mean in this context?

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago

You have to pay for tokens on many of the "AI" tools that you do not run on your own computer.

[–] deHaga@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago

Compute costs?

[–] swiftywizard@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, let's waste some water

[–] gtr@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They are trying to get rid of us by wasting our resources.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 hours ago

So, it's Nestlé behind things again.

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 15 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure training is purely result oriented so anything that works goes

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Exactly why this shit is and will never be trustworthy.