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LorenDBtoday at 3:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Ironically, LLMs would be perfect for implementing such a filter.


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probably_wrongtoday at 3:51 PM

No, they wouldn't.

We've been doing Bayesian content (aka spam) filtering for over 20 years, based in no small part on Paul Graham's essay "A plan for spam". According to HP [1], a home computer at the time had a single 1.5Ghz core and 256Mb of RAM.

Using LLMs would achieve essentially the same while requiring a couple orders of magnitude more resources.

[1] https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/tech-takes/specifications-pers...

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