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Generative AI is a climate disaster (techwontsave.us)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

it’s not “hating your post history”

it has been [0] days since I got accused of having emotions about a driveby poster

how rude

(e: not that you did it ofc, flere, but ykwim)