Comment on AI is not bad for the environment in comparison with many other regular activities.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Upvoted for controversial post…
This whole analysis is based on the cost of queries, which are consume, in fact, a minuscule amount of power.
You (or OOP) also acknowledge that the massive, obscene, megalomaniac power consumption of AI comes from building up the models themselves.
And then you proceed to ignore that the first one is the driver for the second. This is asinine. It’s exactly like saying that the CO2 emissions of fossil fuels is the cost of running the pumps at the station.
Here you go, according to the same logic: Image
AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Look at my sources, it accounts for the training of the AI etc.
fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
And the power their employees need to drive to work?
And the power for all the computers they used growing up?
And the power to make those computers?
And the power Intel used inventing the microprocessor?!
And the power the entire telephone grid used while AT&T developed the transistor?!?!
AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Still a drop in the bucket compared to people taking flights to go on vacation.
If you’re not angry at people taking flights, you shouldn’t be angry at AI for environmental reasons.
There are plenty of other reasons to hate AI.