Post #3323554
2026-06-08 03:19 UTC
Do you think LLMs are being used for this sort of thing?
Yes. It took all of five seconds to find out too.
No, datacentres are not being used for real-time gun detection
You’ve already been wrong once, care to try for two?
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@Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 04:03
Using a LLM for detecting a specific object on an image is possible but stupid: if your object is always the same (like in this case) it’s several orders of magnitude cheaper to train once on that specific object then use the computer vision model running directly on the local server that’s recording the video. Otherwise: the api costs would be colossal, 0.001$ per each image, at 30 fps it’s $100 per hour, nobody would pay that The detection latency would be several seconds vs almost instant Without internet connection the system wouldn’t work Use cases for LLM-based image recognition is if the object changes at every request or it’s ultra specific with brands and colors