Whataboutism at its finest 👌

The difference with other things causing climate change is that some of these other things are actually useful and work, which is not the case with ShitGPT.

And you can be mad at both simultaneously. You don’t have to decry LLMs only.

No, because the carbon footprint is ridiculously high.

Quit the whataboutism. While the construction industry is in dire need of improvements, it’s at least causing GHG emissions to achieve a useful goal, unlike ShitGPT which repeatedly fails to prove its value when opposed to its environmental costs.

On behalf of all humans suffering from your tech bro arrogance: fuck you and your useless tech. I wish this kind of energy consumption becomes illegal, because it is criminal. Can’t wait for the bubble to finally pop.

The article mentions generative AI btw, the kind that powers ShitGPT.

Let the man have some fun 😚

I had to switch recently because I wanted to try out font ligatures and it turns out Alacritty refuse to implement support for that 😬

Spreading FUD is just this guy’s way of trying to keep the hype alive. Techbro bullshittery 101. Reminds me of Crypto YouTube a few years back.

Those shitty investments won’t pay themselves back on their own, you know?

I wish I could ignore this, but it’s harming the environment so much that we can’t just ignore those greedy shitheads.

“AI” is what put Google into trouble to begin with… Sure, let’s double-down on the shittiness, I don’t see how anything could go wrong.

The company isn’t in great shape and their lack of focus made them neglect important parts of their main breadwinner, which is the engine itself. And corporate greed made their core product unattractive. I know a couple of big studios that said they will not make any new game in Unity because of the licensing fiasco.

Do not invoke the name of our Peanut Lord in vain!

Idiots in this thread keep forgetting there’s a climate crisis and that we won’t be able to live the lives we live now forever 🤷‍♀️

The difference is that the Internet is actually useful.

This is ridiculous. The world doesn’t have to bend the knee to LLMs, they’re supposed to be useful tools to solve problems.

And I don’t see why asking them to help with math problems would be unreasonable.

And even if the formulation of the test was not done the right way, your argument is still invalid. LLMs were being used as an aid. The test wasn’t given to the LLM directly. But students failed to use the tool to their advantage.

This is yet another hint that the grift doesn’t actually serve people.

Another thing these bullshit machines can’t do! The list is getting pretty long.

About the calculator argument… Well, the calculator is still used in class, because it makes sense in certain contexts. But nobody ever sold calculators saying they would teach you math and would be a do-everything machine.

God, my sister bought a can because she was visiting and wanted to try it, and didn’t eat it before leaving so I thought I’d eat it to get rid of it… 😩

I can’t remember the last time I gagged while eating something, but this caused me to almost vomit mom’s spaghetti.

That’s dog food. Not meant for human consumption.

Is Groovy still a thing?

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https://lemmy.world/comment/12081117

Some on Lemmy are still pro-LLMs. Quite a lot of folks actually.

The brilliant minds of Lemmy yesterday: " we’re way past caring about GHG emissions" when talking about the LLM-craze of 2023.

Nice!

Restaurants aren’t fighting regular folks to make food supplies scarce and jack up food prices. You can choose to not go to a restaurant and that won’t affect your grocery bill. They don’t privatize food, they offer an actual, non-essential service which is to cook it for you, which deserves compensation. A restaurant organized as a worker coop is ethical.

OTOH, parasitic landlords are responsible for the scarcity/prices of housing. If you don’t rent their appartments, you’re still affected by their greed because the prices are high because of them.

It doesn’t compare at all.

I don’t find it weird, no, because it’s backed with factual bits of information, and it’s true that, despite being interesting as far as the science goes, the tech failed to find its place (much like crypto whose only legit use case is crime).

You say a 58% decrease in energy consumption at Google is nothing, I’d say this is already a huge chunk of Google’s emissions that would be gone, which at that scale isn’t insignificant. And Google is not the only tech titan in the world.

If you don’t care about GHG emissions, some (a lot) of us do. And we’ll keep holding criminals accountable for their actions. Be it in Big Oil or in Big Tech.

Another thing: when talking about climate change, nobody blames immigrants because blaming immigrants for things is something rightoids do and they don’t care much about climate.

On the other hand, guess where migrants will come once their place of origin ends up under the ocean, or when it becomes so hot you can no longer live there? And guess who’s going to be the most affected by the massive influx of climate migrants?