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misanthrope

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8. There is also the environmental cost

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #2)

Fri May 30, 2025, 06:31 PM

May 30

Artificial intelligence systems are creating vast emissions – and it is getting worse, according to a major new study.

The increasing energy required to train and run more complex models, as well as the much broader interest in using them, is bringing serious environmental consequences, a new paper has warned.

As the systems get better, they require more computing power and therefore more energy to run. OpenAI’s current GPT-4, for instance, uses 12 times more energy than its predecessor.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-artificial-intelligence-environment-climate-b2643918.html

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I love AI [View all] WarGamer May 30 OP

Probably should have specified "baggy blue suit." Beartracks May 30 #1

Give it 18 months. You'll stop loving it. Scrivener7 May 30 #2

Why? WarGamer May 30 #3

So you're fine with the theft of the world's data and culture, all that stolen intellectual property, to train it? highplainsdem May 30 #5

Fine with doubling our energy consumption Ponietz May 30 #10

Apparently there are people who don't care about that if they can have the AI spit out AI slop in seconds. highplainsdem May 30 #13

Start here Scrivener7 May 30 #7

There is also the environmental cost misanthrope May 30 #8

It's going to be the end of us. Scrivener7 May 30 #9

Further specifications needed: "uncomfortably overweight man in baggy blue suit with ridiculously long red tie" 0rganism May 30 #4

... demmiblue May 30 #6

Game it out WarGamer Ponietz May 30 #11

This is actually a great example of why AI sucks so bad. WhiskeyGrinder May 30 #12

Thank you. That nailed it. highplainsdem May 30 #14

easy to add details WarGamer May 30 #15

Oh look, it's still uninspired ugly-ass shit that boils lakes and hurts people, to no great end. WhiskeyGrinder May 30 #16

But they added AI-slop melted cheese slopping over the side of the taco shell! Of course we don't know how many highplainsdem May 30 #17

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