Comment on AI Training Slop
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 days agoI’ll assume you didn’t misread my question on purpose, I didn’t ask about inference, I asked about training.
Comment on AI Training Slop
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 days agoI’ll assume you didn’t misread my question on purpose, I didn’t ask about inference, I asked about training.
Maalus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
How much energy was used to bring the truckload of groceries into the shop that one time so hundreds of people can use it?
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Great point, I’so are you saying there is a certain threshold above which training is energetically useful but under which it is not, e.g. if training of a large model is used by 1 person, it is not sustainable but if 1 million people use it (assuming it’s done productively, not spam or scam) there it is fine?
Killer@lemmy.world 5 days ago
So you’re saying if 1 guy made 1 million results it would offset the training?
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Results? I have no idea what you are talking about. I thought we were discussing the training cost (my initial question) and that the truckload was an analogy to argue that the impact from that upfront costs is spread among users.