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‘Thirsty’ ChatGPT uses four times more water than previously thought
(www.thetimes.com)
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Good point. But considering the frequent retraining, the environmental impacts can only be spread on a finite number of queries.
They have already reached diminishing returns on training. It will become much less frequent soon. Retraining on the same data if there isn't a better method is useless. I think the ressources consumed per query should only include those actually used for inference. The rest can be dismissed as bad faith argumentation.