• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      3 days ago

      You’re on the Internet. Should we shut that off as well?

      How are you any better with coming online to shit post and look at memes.

      The datacenters used to run websites and social media are not any better.

      • Feyd@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        3 days ago

        Are you trying to say that making a series of http requests to view a website is even remotely equivalent in energy usage compared to running inference with an llm model???

        • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 days ago

          Yes since you’re not the only one doing it. The impact on climate is substantial in both cases and people are absolute hypocrites for not realizing this. You can’t come online and shit post all day about AI without realizing you’re using services that also contribute to The same if not worse impact

          • Feyd@programming.dev
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            2 days ago

            Someone using a lightbulb isn’t a hypocrite if they say it is irresponsible to use the resources to power a computer, and someone using the internet isn’t a hypocrite if they say the absurdly higher resource usage of llm inference is irresponsible.

            You can call people hypocrites all day if you pretend that scale isn’t a concept, but you’re obviously wrong.

            • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              2 days ago

              No I’m not wrong and it is hypocritical. It is a great point that highlights this issue isn’t about resources. It’s hype and panic pushed to certain groups. Just like any other. I can find the same hypocrisy on the right fot many of their issues