No LLM use is benign. The affects on the environment, the internet, and society are uniformly bad, and that cannot be ignored.
You can make the argument that in some cases it is justified, e.g.: for scientific research.
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circuscritic@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
Since no one is leaving critical comments that might explain all your downvotes, I’m going to assume they’re reflexively anti-AI.
But one of the benign useful things I use already AI for, is giving it criterias for shows and asking it to generate lists.
So I think your project is pretty neat and well within the scope of actually useful things that AI models, especially local ones, can provide the users.
eksb@programming.dev 3 hours ago
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
chill, this is extracting text embeddings from a local model, not generating feature-length films
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
So running a local model is unforgivable, but “scientific research” running on hyperscalers, can be justified?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The effects on the environment
Didn’t down vote you. I hear this line of complaint in conjunction with AI, especially if the person saying it is anti-AI. Without even calculating in AI, some 25 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually from streaming and content consumption. Computers, smartphones, and tablets can emit around 200 million metric tons CO2 per year in electrical consumption. Take data centers for instance. If they are powered by fossil fuels, this can add about 100 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. Infrastructure contributes around 50 million metric tons of CO2 per year.
Now…who wants to turn off their servers and computers? Volunteers? While it is true that AI does contribute, we’re already pumping out some significant CO2 without it. Until we start switching to renewable energy globally, this will continue to climb with or without AI. It seems tho, that we will have to deplete the fossil fuel supply globally before renewables become the de facto standard.
illusionist@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Huh? There are other ways to link similarities of movies without the use of a llm. You may use ai to find similar movies but it’s nonsense that everyone has to ask a llm to link movies.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
no one is saying everyone has to ask an LLM for movie recommendations
illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
OP wrote a python script that call a llm to ask for a recommendation.
But you are right, op doesn’t say that everyone shall do it
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
No, it doesn’t do that. It gets embeddings from an LLM and uses that to rank candidates.
u_tamtam@programming.dev 2 hours ago
LLMs are not the tool for a recommender job