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

• fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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