Comment by BlackLaZoR@kbin.run on Generative AI is a climate disaster

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.

Nope it isn’t. You blame AI companies for pollution they didn’t generate. Blame the energy sector.

Why the hell aren’t we using mix of nuclear and renewables in this day and age is beyond me

holy shit your post history of full of takes this bad, that’s an impressive track record of dim. must be exhausting

And yet, my opponents in discussion failed to provide good counterarguments. You aren’t going to convince me of anything by hating my post history

Nope it isn’t. You blame AI companies for pollution they didn’t generate. Blame the energy sector.

don’t talk about providing good counterarguments, please

What, you want to tell me I’m somehow obligated to exactly know where and how every service I use is produced?

Talk about a horrible take.

it’s not “hating your post history”, it’s just realisation that you’re a shitty debatelord and talking to you is waste of time.

And yet you’re talking to me… To prove some point perhaps? Feel free to ignore or block me if you don’t like my posts.

it’s not “hating your post history”

it has been [0] days since I got accused of having emotions about a driveby poster

how rude

(e: not that you did it ofc, flere, but ykwim)

see, because they can’t provide their own, talking about good arguments is all they have left

I one-up your well-sourced article with a “nope it isn’t”, your move.

And yet, my opponents in discussion

good gods you’re going to be the most insufferable kind of person, aren’t you

You aren’t going to convince me of anything

this was a bit of a given

bet you also think the climate cost of cryptocurrency is also a failing of the energy sector to deliver clean power to the innocent sweet little industrial-scale mining tycoons, don’t you

oh wow there’s some literal “it’s not a nazi unless it’s an old dead German” shit in there, they’re that kind of fash debatebro

yeah, they don’t teach much about fascist atrocities in ethiopia, and then people feel compelled to defend the good name of the boys in the black shirts because the poor dupes didn’t build the concentration camps – just were allied to the builders.

yeah sorry I kinda undersold it

thank fuck they came out swinging

Since we aren’t using those it is in fact a climate disaster currently and they know that.

Assuming you want to ground your argument in our reality.

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here’s the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

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