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[–] AmanitaCaesarea@slrpnk.net 41 points 4 days ago

Google and privacy in the same sentence... Lol

[–] Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 3 days ago

Google and Privacy can't exist in the same sentence.

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 16 points 4 days ago

'Press x to doubt'

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Privacy preserving? More like avoiding lawsuits due to copyrighted information

[–] 7eter@feddit.org 9 points 4 days ago

This! Plus opening up the possibility for Google to use private user data with even less concern. So not a privacy win at all.

[–] tal@olio.cafe 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

LLMs have non-deterministic outputs, meaning you can't exactly predict what they'll say.

I mean...they can have non-deterministic outputs. There's no requirement for that to be the case.

It might be desirable in some situations; randomness can be a tactic to help provide variety in a conversation. But it might be very undesirable in others: no matter how many times I ask "What is 1+1?", I usually want the same answer.

[–] kassiopaea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In theory, it's just an algorithm that will always produce the same output given the exact same inputs. In practice it's nearly impossible to have fully deterministic outputs because of the limited precision and repeatability we get with floating point numbers on GPUs.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

What does people use a 1b model for?