This seems like a waste of time to me when you could instead focus on Coal or things that matter

What's your thoughts on this?
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

AI is negligible compared to Coal & private jets etc. Or just gross spending by billionaires

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It currently is negligible. Depending on how long this hype train lasts it may stop being negligible. Coal is on the decline. Private jets and careless billionaires are growing problems, but not as fast as ai. All need handling one way or another.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm anti-ai for privacy, copyright reasons etc.

    But the environmental impact is negligible, streaming Netflix uses way more resources than thousands of AI prompts (including training)

    If we watched less YouTube it would make a much bigger difference than if we didn't use AI

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Do you have a source for the streaming v AI power consumption thing? I don't want to be an ass, just genuinely curious. When I run jellyfin and stream something from my home server, it draws 35 watts. If I run an ai model on my GPU, it draws way more than that.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I can't remember where I first saw it, I quickly found this

    https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about

    Maybe not the best source, but tl:dr one ChatGPT prompt uses ~3watts including the training.

    10min of 4k video streaming uses significantly more than a lot of prompts

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