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scratchee@feddit.uk 1 day agoIt currently is negligible. Depending on how long this hype train lasts it may stop being negligible. Coal is on the decline. Private jets and careless billionaires are growing problems, but not as fast as ai. All need handling one way or another.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 day ago
I'm anti-ai for privacy, copyright reasons etc.
But the environmental impact is negligible, streaming Netflix uses way more resources than thousands of AI prompts (including training)
If we watched less YouTube it would make a much bigger difference than if we didn't use AI
scratchee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Fair point, after some googling I see I was significantly overestimating ais impact despite your comment previous comment, my bad.
shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Do you have a source for the streaming v AI power consumption thing? I don’t want to be an ass, just genuinely curious. When I run jellyfin and stream something from my home server, it draws 35 watts. If I run an ai model on my GPU, it draws way more than that.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 1 day ago
I can't remember where I first saw it, I quickly found this
https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about
Maybe not the best source, but tl:dr one ChatGPT prompt uses ~3watts including the training.
10min of 4k video streaming uses significantly more than a lot of prompts