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Generative AI is a climate disaster (techwontsave.us)
submitted 4 months ago by UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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The cost of simply retrieving an answer from the Web is infinitely smaller than the cost of generating a new one.

Great interview with Sasha Luccioni from Huggingface on all the ways that using generative AI for everything is both a) hugely costly compared to existing methods, and b) insane.

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[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 21 points 4 months ago

But bill gates says not to worry about it, because ai will solve the climate disaster it's creating. -_-

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

He was also claiming AI would destroy us a few years ago. (Not talking about climate, skynet style)

Side note: listening to him is as bad as listening to a celebrity.

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 7 points 4 months ago

Maybe worse, since society considers him a SME on subjects he isn't, she they listen to his word as though it's coming from an actual SME.

[-] Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 points 4 months ago

It's not creating a climate disaster, just amplifying the existing one.

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