The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Absolutely needed: to get high efficiency for this beast … as it gets better, we’ll become too dependent.

“all of this growth is for a new technology that’s still finding its footing, and in many applications—education, medical advice, legal analysis—might be the wrong tool for the job,”

  • zerofk@lemm.eeEnglish
    87·
    1 day ago

    Sounds like most of Lemmy. Honestly sometimes I feel it’s worse than Reddit with the constant bashing on anything except Linux, Firefox, or - for some reason - Steam. Still glad I left Reddit though.

    • Engywook@lemm.eeEnglish
      43·
      23 hours ago

      I didn’t leave reddit, because I consider useful the subs I use (mostly technical stuff). And yes, you’re right about the constant bashing on anything out of the herd mentality.

    • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      21 hours ago

      Nuclear power seems to be one of those things that are anything but bashed here but instead gets treated with an almost worship-like reverence.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
      24·
      24 hours ago

      Take all that shit with a grain of salt. Such things don’t matter. Imagine getting riled up over a fucking web-browser. LOL.

      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        51·
        22 hours ago

        or about an operating system, LOL! oh nevermind that it’s been uploading all your personal documents and pictures to a questionable cloud storage service without your given informed consent, for years, or that it recently started screenshotting the everydays of millions if not billions of users (among them businesses dealing with your data), to scrape together as much information as they possibly can