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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 1 points 4 months ago (24 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

Edit: For everyone who doesn't believe this is feasible - electricity production in France comes almost entirely from non-fossil sources, and half of total energy consumption is from non fossil sources.

https://www.iea.org/countries/france

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (23 children)

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

[–] BlackLaZoR@kbin.run -1 points 4 months ago (20 children)

And yet, my opponents in discussion failed to provide good counterarguments. You aren't going to convince me of anything by hating my post history

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you're going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren't you

You aren't going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don't you

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