• errer@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Just like with plastic waste, it isn’t random people making Gemini uwu once in a while that wastes a significant amount of water/energy. It’s the corporations submitting billions of LLM requests that’s consuming most of it.

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            2 months ago

            Every comment on lemmy will eventually be used to train an LLM so if we really want a clear conscience, we should all stop putting anything on the internet

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          Really it’s the training that’s the biggest resource drain. Requests don’t require nearly as much compute power.