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this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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using AI to create these images is really gonna help with the hole in the floor
There's no way I will find it but I could swear I've seen that image before the AI hype.
This is why I can't take "The purpose of a system is what it does" seriously
Why? The purpose of the system is to not work, so there are no democratic checks.
Oh, maybe it was this one.
It's so ironic that this one is made by the Russian artist, and the whole story repeats itself so far with one part of the nation being in the hostage of the other.
We're losing this battle so quickly. It's unreal to me how fucked we are.
First time? If there's one thing I've learned, it's that normies don't give a fuck and just want their simple distractions, regardless of what the greater cost to society is.
Like sweeping the tide with a broom
In what way won't it help? Be specific.
Training large models like an LLM (text generation) or a stable diffusion model (image generation) consumes a lot of energy and using these models isn't cheap either. It's bad for the climate in the same way cryptocurrency is.
AI is quite energy intensive
How energy intensive?
Like, compared to random cat videos on youtube n all?
And would the addition of renewable energy be able to handle it?
Using it, not all that energy intensive (one llm use is roughly the same as 3 pre-ai-bullshit google searches iirc). Training it, very energy intensive.
Yes it would but we haven't even replaced all our previous needs with renewables so it aint helping.
According to this article, this is not considered true anymore:
I think there's a reason why OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and Facebook hold the energy consumption and water usage numbers so close to their chest.
Oh damn. Very good article btw.
According to numbers floating around online, thiat would mean one llama query is around as expensive as 10 google searches. And it's likely that those costs will increase further.
It still seems like the biggest factor here is the scale of adaptation. Unfortunately the total energy costs of AI might even scale exponentially since the more complex the queries get, the better the responses will likely be. And that will further drive adaptation.
This pace is so clearly unsustainable it's horrifying, and while it was obvious to some degree, it seems it's worse than I thought.