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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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[–] self@awful.systems 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

oh wow there’s some literal “it’s not a nazi unless it’s an old dead German” shit in there, they’re that kind of fash debatebro

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

yeah, they don't teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn't build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

yeah sorry I kinda undersold it

thank fuck they came out swinging