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Generative AI is a climate disaster (techwontsave.us)

submitted 4 months ago by UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run 5 points 4 months ago (26 children)

Nope it isn't. You blame AI companies for pollution they didn't generate. Blame the energy sector.

Why the hell aren't we using mix of nuclear and renewables in this day and age is beyond me

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 36 points 4 months ago (25 children)

holy shit your post history of full of takes this bad, that's an impressive track record of dim. must be exhausting

[–] self@awful.systems 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

oh wow there’s some literal “it’s not a nazi unless it’s an old dead German” shit in there, they’re that kind of fash debatebro

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

yeah, they don't teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn't build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.

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