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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

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

don't talk about providing good counterarguments, please

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

see, because they can't provide their own, talking about good arguments is all they have left

[-] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I one-up your well-sourced article with a "nope it isn't", your move.

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