Post #2868592

2025-04-29 16:25 UTC

@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net Using it promotes AI as a viable business model as a whole as well as (in the case of non-local models) provides usage data and training content (and money if you pay) for the companies to do further bad AI business with. So of course, while the direct impact of one query on the environment doesn't really matter, the economical impact of you using it does indeed have an influence on the environment! The goal has to be to make AI and its connected surveillance capitalism a non-viable business model, and refraining to use it and shunning everyone who does is a way to do that!

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@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net 2025-04-29 16:30

@the_moep@mastodon.de shunning people who use LLMs because they are being environmentally irresponsible feels dishonest to me There are plenty of credible arguments against irresponsible usage of LLMs, I don't like seeing people waste their time on the ones that are least credible

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@the_moep@mastodon.de 2025-04-29 16:30

@simon@fedi.simonwillison.net Give me an approach which: Does not waste massive amounts of energy (and water) for trainingDoes not require expensive rare materials to runDoesn't spit out wrong crapCan actually run locally in a private environmentHas a reproduceable thought processIs free (as in libre) to be used by everyone and maybe then we can talk about actually deploying this in the real world. Until then they should stop their venture-capital induced hype bubble fueled by ex-crypto-bros und get back the the drawing board. I'll take human work over an AI every day until that happens...

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