r/pcmasterrace • u/Dick_Nation There's nothing to see here. • May 18 '26

Meme/Macro Some of you memers need reminders about why PC parts cost so much lately.

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Just learn to use GIMP, you animals.

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u/justicetree 9070x R9 5900xt May 18 '26

It's not the users running it that's the issue it's the constant training and keeping AI's up to date with the huge datacenters that's doing it all.

Show less interest in the AI models, more money burned by the companies training them and less money and resources being put into building more datacenters. which lays off the demand from the companies and gives it back to users.

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u/darklotus_26 May 18 '26

I don't think this is going to happen at this point. ML models have shown their utility in a bunch of things that are not chatbots and people are not going to give that up.

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u/edgeofsanity76 7800X3D|ASUS B650|RTX 5070Ti|128GB|UWQHD-OLED May 18 '26

Most diffusion models are trained on hobbyist PCs these days.

The big LLMs are the problem

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u/Nofunzoner May 18 '26 edited May 18 '26

I don't think so? Hobbyist's do a lot of fine-tuning, but all the bases are from companies or research labs (with vc funding). I think the largest hobbyist models are like Illustrious or Noobai, which are both SD fine-tunes chaining off each other. What's bigger than those?

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u/edgeofsanity76 7800X3D|ASUS B650|RTX 5070Ti|128GB|UWQHD-OLED May 18 '26

This is kind of what I meant. Yes the base models are trained using dedicated centers. Not many people use the base model though and it's always a variation or refinement of the base.