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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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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

But bill gates says not to worry about it, because ai will solve the climate disaster it's creating. -_-

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago

It's not creating a climate disaster, just amplifying the existing one.