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.

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    4 months ago

    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)