I'm on the mid-tier plan available to me. 500 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. It would take me, bare minimum, about 6.67 minutes to upload 1 gigabyte. I'll be the first to admit that I don't know much about AI/ML, so I could be wrong, but assuming a fine-tuned model is the same size as the base model, it would take me 90 minutes to upload the llama2 7B model (13.5 GB).
If it were standard practice for many people, we might finally get symmetric cable. But most people aren't YouTubers. In my experience, people who aren't into tech usually have no idea their upload speeds are any slower than their download speeds, much less 25 times slower. They usually just let their phone upload their photos in the background, and it just works. Hell, I can't even find my upload speed on the consumer section of my ISP's site, only in a pdf for their business plans. Not even in legalese.
If it were standard practice for many people, we might finally get symmetric cable. But most people aren't YouTubers. In my experience, people who aren't into tech usually have no idea their upload speeds are any slower than their download speeds, much less 25 times slower. They usually just let their phone upload their photos in the background, and it just works. Hell, I can't even find my upload speed on the consumer section of my ISP's site, only in a pdf for their business plans. Not even in legalese.