166
Generative AI is a climate disaster (techwontsave.us)
submitted 5 months ago by UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
34 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 5 months ago

i wanted to know how did you know, then i looked up his comment history on kbin and i wish i didn't (he extruded three more comments before he clocked that he's banned)

[-] mawhrin@awful.systems 12 points 5 months ago

a hunch, really: i've met the type and had my suspicions, and then i've found that he posted the link about polish antitrust & consumer protection watchdog fining paypal, which is generally niche outside poland.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 5 months ago

i've seen that too but the final giveaway was this fucking thing:

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )つ──☆*:・

from the last comment on awful (after ban)

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

btw i strongly suspect that there's a way to tell native language of poster by style of writing and specific kinds of grammar mistakes

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 3 points 5 months ago

it is an often-viable heuristic, yeah

this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2024
166 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1489 readers
52 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems