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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“It only uses 5x as much energy as a regular search! Think of how much energy YOU’RE using with searches!” Okay, so you’re just using 5x as much energy for worse results? And also probably doing it more often than people who just use a normal search engine, because they don’t expect the search engine to talk to them. I’ve never understood how that was supposed to be an exoneration for it, even without taking into account that nobody ever seems to know whether or not that figure includes energy spent on training.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 48 points 5 months ago

AI bros use literally the same whatabout excuses for their ghastly power consumption that I know from years of bitcoin bros doing the same

like, at least christmas lights bring joy