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Generative AI is a climate disaster (techwontsave.us)
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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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[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 9 points 4 months ago

It's not creating a climate disaster, just amplifying the existing one.