Generative AI is a climate disaster - eviltoast

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.

    • V0ldek@awful.systems
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      4 months ago

      It’s when you want to say “kurwo jebana” but in a more polite, sophisticated way.

      Think “bless your heart”.

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        4 months ago

        yeah I got that from the explanation flere gave :)

        Think “bless your heart”.

        most polish (as in character/style) translation I’ve seen today