AwesomeLowlander comments on KDE Eco talks about genai

KDE Eco talks about genai (floss.social)

submitted 1 month ago by richardisaguy@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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Given its extremely high energy and water consumption, the increased minimum system requirements driving premature hardware obsolescence, among other very problematic social and political issues, genAI/LLMs are not compatible with the values and goals of KDE Eco.

KDE is a diverse community and the opinions and projects of some KDE contributors are not representative of the entire community or KDE Eco projects.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-and-artificial-intelligence-use

TLDR: Energy consumption isn't really high, especially generic conversational prompts. Advanced prompts are only used by a very niche group. The main impact is largely on the locales immediately surrounding data centers.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Sounds like the real problem is just data centres being in the wrong places, sucking the wrong resources.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 1 point 1 month ago

In a way. And that is mostly due to capitalism. Had they taken the time to slowly scale up and use renewables, they wouldn't have triggered this level of lashback. But no, they had to race to be first.

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