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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.
Why would it be by design? What does that even mean in this context?
You have to pay for tokens on many of the "AI" tools that you do not run on your own computer.
Compute costs?
I dunno, let's waste some water
They are trying to get rid of us by wasting our resources.
So, it's Nestlé behind things again.
I'm pretty sure training is purely result oriented so anything that works goes
Exactly why this shit is and will never be trustworthy.