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by CobrastanJorji 22 days ago
Great, now my websites are gonna push entire LLMs onto my browser in order to use my CPU to make inferences about my shopping habits or whatever.
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Ha, I was literally thinking this but from the other side.

"Hmm, 7MB would barely make a dent in the size of the app and allow us to do some of our basic ML without calling the backend"

Probably a lot more practical to use this though: https://developer.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

If you think about it, running a crypto miner without being asked is probably less annoying than downloading an entire LLM, but only the first will get you in jail.
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