Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.

• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because we have better methods that are easier, cheaper, and less damaging to the environment. They are solving nothing and wasting a fuckton of resources to do so.

  It’s like telling cavemen they don’t need fire because you can mount an expedition to the nearest valcanoe to cook food without the need for fuel then bring it back to them.

  The best case scenario is the LLM tells you information that is already available on the internet, but 50% of the time it just makes shit up.

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  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wasteful?

    Energy production is an issue. Using that energy isn’t. LLMs are a better use of energy than most of the useless shit we produce everyday.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Did the LLMs tell you that? It’s not hard to look up on your own:

      Data centers, in particular, are responsible for an estimated 2% of electricity use in the U.S., consuming up to 50 times more energy than an average commercial building, and that number is only trending up as increasingly popular large language models (LLMs) become connected to data centers and eat up huge amounts of data. Based on current datacenter investment trends,LLMs could emit the equivalent of five billion U.S. cross-country flights in one year.

      …umich.edu/…/power-hungry-ai-researchers-evaluate…

      Far more than straightforward search engines that have the exact same information and don’t make shit up half the time.

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