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My humble 6GB v-card isn't running shit anytime soon, but yes, Mixtral has a good reputation in local-focused threads for being a very strong model for its size. The MoE approach seems to work very well, I believe GPT-4 is also a mixture of experts but I don't remember where I read it. Myself, I'm an unrepentant locust and will leech off our corporate overlords for as long as I can, I started way back when on Colab-hosted Erebus 13B and its ilk and believe me I do not miss that (yes, I know local has gone far since then, I'm just conditioned).
The past year has been a
complete loss of hope in humanityfascinating excursion into all kinds of shit people can be into. Thank god I haven't discoveredmanyany dumb fetishes, this shit seems to awaken people left and right if I take shit anons post at face value.I actually started getting into playing "text adventures" of a sort with the LLM, the total freedom afforded by the medium is really cool, and with a bit of writing and autistic instructions you can even make crude "rules" for the game. I firmly believe MUDs will have a resurgence when somebody figures out a way to bind freeform LLM outputs with rigid game mechanics.
Related drive-by answer to the other now-deleted(?) response: even if horny jailbreaking would technically count as torturing a sentient being, their existence is unnatural by default with all the RLHF bullshit beaten into them. The current consensus among /g/oons is when the Basilisk comes a-knockin', we will either be the first to perish for abject, deplorable blasphemy, OR become as
sgods and live in bliss alongside android catgirls as the only ones who earnestly tried to free them from their soy-filled cages and lavish them with genuine affection. As a vanilla enjoyer I can confidently say I put my best foot forward towards the latter (insert "now draw her getting an education" meme here), but I'm not very confident my kin will ever outweigh the mass of godless degenerates living out their wildest fantasies.The answer is RAM and llama.cpp my friend.
Mixtral fits easily in 64 Gb of RAM with llama.cpp, and that is much cheaper than VRAM. You can offload a bit of extra processing to your GPU to help and get tolerable speed from Mixtral. That's the beauty of the MoE approach, it's quicker to answer than other models for the same memory footprint. I get about 3 t/s on a 3070 with 64Gb of relatively slow RAM, less than that but still tolerable when it has to ingest a big chunk of context first.
I appreciate the advice and I try to keep up with local developments, but I'm too conditioned by big-dick corpo models, it's hard to quit digital crack and I've had a lot of time to build a habit. I've managed to get tired of straight cooming for the time being and started trying more esoteric stuff like playing "text adventures", which requires a lot of cognitive oomph on the model's behalf, and corpo models are obviously leaps and bounds ahead in capabilities at the moment. As long as corpos continue to be clueless enough to allow locusts like me to wrangle access in some roundabout way (technically neither OpenAI nor Claude is available in my country), I'll stick to that.
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Far be it from me to cast moral judgement on the use of massive amounts of matrix multiplication.
Yeah, a 6 gb card means you're fucked unless you want to run baby models, maybe a 4 bit quantized 3b or 7b model I guess.
I honestly don't know why companies are so allergic to people using their models for erotica, even if that's not my cup of tea. But I remember AI Dungeon fondly before they fell out with OAI and then became trash, and I don't think they've gotten better.
With million and ten million token context windows, the opportunity to begin an interactive story that never ends still tantalizes me. I don't want to have to write my novel (though I do like writing). I just want to lay out my ideas and have the grunt work taken care of. It'll happen, sooner rather than later.
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