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I swear 50% of Mastodon's feed is just people having mass hysteria about AI and not understanding how any of it works
Also constantly getting baited about how AI is definitely the reason global warming is happening despite, you know, waves to virtually everything running on fossil fuels
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To be fair the cost benefit ratio of llms is way out of whack. It's even behind outdoor heating in bars.
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Itâs the same as my enjoyment of video games, 3D modeling, or video editing - my gpu spins up for a few minutes.
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Lmao. But ya true, it's not fair to consider all LLM use equally.
Although I've made gpt write nonsense poem for me, most of my prompts are work related that saves me countless hours.
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Monkey type inane question, teslacoils power up, screen show smart word words
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Ummm, obviously exaggerated but still true, and yeah the fossil fuels are the cause of climate change but AI is driving up the usage.
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Honestly it is makes the problem a little worse. It is far from the cause. You can run AI on clean power.
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But they aren't running it on clean power? And so it is a massive contributor?
That's like saying it's fine to waste food because it can theoretically be grown sustainably, even when the food you're wasting wasn't.
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is it a massive contributor? I would venture to argue that air conditioning globally, is probably equally as large, if not larger.
I would argue that most industries, consume more energy. Though it's also worth noting microsoft spun up the good TMI core to generate power for AI (iirc at the very least a datacenter), so in some cases it is actually consuming cleanly generated power.
Thatâs like saying itâs fine to waste food because it can theoretically be grown sustainably, even when the food youâre wasting wasnât.
also to be clear, it's a little more complicated than this, it doesn't make sense to ship food products, and then re-ship those food products, only to be shipped again economically, or environmentally, compared to having better local sources of food (and likewise, income, the major problem with global food insecurity is actually monetary, rather than production/consumption based)
Although there are definitely optimizations to be made in terms of how food is consumed. It's not a black and white, unless you want to live in a strictly controlled environment where you get fed synthetic nutrient paste every few hours. In which case, by all means.
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