Comment on AI Training Slop
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 days agoSatirically pointing out that worrying about electricity usage for model creation is ridiculous.
It’s already spent. The model exists. It’s probably MORE moral to use it as much as possible to get some positive value out of it. Otherwise it was just wasted.
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes indeed, yet my point is that we training models TODAY so if keep on not caring, then we do postpone the same problem, cf lemmy.world/post/30563785/17400518
Basically yes, use trained model today if you want but if you don’t set a trend then despite the undeniable ecological impact, there will be no corrective measure.
It’s not enough to just say “Oh well, it used a ton of energy. We MUST use it now.”
Anyway, my overall point was that training takes a ton of energy. I’m not asking your or OP or anyone else NOT to use such models. I’m solely pointing out that doing so without understand the process that lead to such models, including but not limited to energy for training, is naive at best.
piecat@lemmy.world 5 days ago
How much electricity was wasted for you to post, and us to receive, your human slop