The models were still (and probably still are actively being) trained in giant data centres that devour energy and water.
I hate to tell you, but your Lemmy instance is in a datacenter too. Most everything on the Internet is in a datacenter.
The important detail is that an upscaling model and a large language model are vastly different things despite both containing the word model and using neural networks.
As to training costs. You can train an upscaling model on your phone in a few hours. It would take you millions of years to train an LLM on your phone (not to mention requiring about 12,000x as much RAM).
You’re just repeating talking points on topics without understanding them or how they apply.
I hate to tell you, but your Lemmy instance is in a datacenter too. Most everything on the Internet is in a datacenter.
The important detail is that an upscaling model and a large language model are vastly different things despite both containing the word model and using neural networks.
As to training costs. You can train an upscaling model on your phone in a few hours. It would take you millions of years to train an LLM on your phone (not to mention requiring about 12,000x as much RAM).
You’re just repeating talking points on topics without understanding them or how they apply.