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ai thirst is killing us (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Me: prompts a frontier LLM one time to do 30 minutes of my work in 45 seconds

Randos on the internet: "omg you're killing the planet"

Me, who once left a Minecraft technic modpack game running in the background while I had a 2hr goon session, consuming orders of magnitude more power for nothing productive:

awkward puppet monkey gif

Yeah, there are lots of reasons to hate AI, and resource consumption is absolutely one of them; but people seem to miss the forest for the trees when it comes to exactly what parts are problematic

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Shiiiiiiit

I've got this chonker running a couple of game servers, I can hear it humming away through a wall right now. If I scrapped this machine and switched over to AWS or Azure, it would save so much electricity.

Like fuck I'm gonna do that though, cloud machines are expensive.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago

same, except it was 12 months