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Generative AI is a climate disaster (techwontsave.us)
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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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[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

see, because they can't provide their own, talking about good arguments is all they have left

[-] fasterandworse@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

I one-up your well-sourced article with a "nope it isn't", your move.

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