• zalgotext
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    5 months ago

    No shit people are utilizing things. That’s not the point. The point is that on the way to providing these services, they harm the environment disproportionately more than you or I. As your first article points out:

    "AI doesn’t have to be super, super data-hungry or super, super compute-hungry,” says Donti. Instead, we can “imagine AI differently.”

    That’s the point. The billionaires and their megacorps could do it better. Your article points out a bunch of ways for LLMs to use less energy, and the amount of energy doing that would save would be orders of magnitude more than if people cut back or stopped their use, or whatever it is you’re suggesting.

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      5 months ago

      Man if that was practical at this stage they would already be doing it. These people spend tones of money on data center hardware and the energy to run them, and it costs them reputation. If they didn’t have to do all that it would increase their profit margin significantly.

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        5 months ago

        Fuck their profit margins, and fuck the shitty double standard billionaires and their holdings are held to. If I’m expected to be energy conscious as an individual, I don’t think it’s too much to ask for these rich fucks to make their companies energy conscious as well.

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          5 months ago

          Don’t get me wrong I am not saying I like billionaires or anything like that. I am saying it’s in the companies best interest to save energy when developing AI. The fact they don’t tells you it isn’t practical. These AI systems aren’t exactly just used by billionaires. All kind of people use these systems and many are actually free to use.