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Comment on AI is not bad for the environment in comparison with many other regular activities.

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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

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AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Look at my sources, it accounts for the training of the AI etc.

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- fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And all the power spent by tons of companies now constantly scraping the internet?
  
  And all the storage now that all the big players need to have local copies of the internet to train on?
  
  All the power spent making all those hard drives? All the power it takes for Nvidia to make millions more GPUs than otherwise needed?
  
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  - mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?!?!
    
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  - AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
    
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