Post #2235038
2026-03-09 10:19 UTC
@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social
- the funny thing about outsourcing anything anywhere is that if they want to do this work, it means it's a good offer compared to what choices they had otherwise. More power to them.
- the water issues are very funny: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/from-tokens-to-burgers-a-water-footprint
> if we assume a daily request number of 30 queries per day and an average output length of 375 tokens, we get to the conclusion that a single burger’s water footprint equals using Grok for 668 years, 30 times a day, every single day.
- what are you even on about, should we ban crayons because they can be used to draw CSAM?
@asie@mk.asie.pl
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@dzwiedziu@mastodon.social 2026-03-09 10:36
@Amikke@qoto.org Of course it's a good offer compared to starving in a “starve or work” system. A source citing itself is not enough. Please cite anything that has verified those numbers. &focusing on xAI is cherry-picking. Also counter, Google is suing to keep it's water usage secret: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/06/how-much-water-do-the-data-centres-use-its-a-secret/ Comparing it to meat is cherry-picking, as meat is already high on the water usage list. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/water-withdrawals-per-kg-poore (That still means we should stop both using “AI” and eating meat.) » @asie@mk.asie.pl