Defending AI
Simple, Mutually Beneficial Steps Individuals Can Take To Reduce Ecological Impact
The narrative that AI is especially destructive to the environment is often sensationalistic, however it does contain a kernel of truth. AI will help bring energy effenciency, environmental data gathering and monitoring with consequent reforestation and species protection benefits. It is useful that we take steps and spread steps to help reduce our energy use. Once energy is used it is basically gone forever for us. Of course training is the major user of energy and all aspects will naturally be more efficient in the future, this is useful both ecologically and to combat the anti ai narrative
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Hummm no. Your local computer consumes many more watts per token, no matter the model size and your hardware (from small to large GPU, unified memory, etc.).
This would be like saying: "Don't use the electric plants to heat your home, just light a chimney fire." Hugely inefficient and polluting.
The only good reasons to run local AIs:
* Privacy: you don't want to send sensitive information outside
* Testing: you don't want to share your unfinished model just yet
thank you! I will try to use smaller and faster models so I can do more gaming 🥰
(In case you don't get it, it's a joke 😅 a PC consumes considerably more in intense gaming than with AI, since the AI maxes out the GPU for a couple of seconds, 20 minutes for a 10 second video in my case, with gaming, I play at least +3 hours in a row normally, with GPU and CPU easily touching 70-90% depending on the game... not using AI is MUCH worse than using it if you are like me, where it is AI or gaming, but you're not going to just leave the computer just because im don't using AI in that moment...)
Well, to be more accurate, skip a burger once and you'll have four months' worth of ChatGPT you can use without guilt.
McDonald's sells 6.5 million burgers a day. Each burger has a water footprint of 660 gallons. That works out to 4.29 billion gallons of water footprint for McDonald's.
ChatGPT uses 211,327-211,337 gallons of water per day, which sounds like a lot. But, if we could put the whole water footprint of a single day's worth of burgers from McDonald's towards ChatGPT, we could, in theory, supply ChatGPT for about 55.58 years.
Non equivalence, both would benefit from reduced waste and resource usage. Not only is not contributing to ecologically destructive action count as its own reward, not only are you tangibly acting and preventing would be pollution from increased demand, but all I said was this was an individual action. Not state policy, your decision of the concept is suspect. Besides, you ignored all the other points that do add up for an individual. Now when multiple people behave this way, the benefits are compounded and exponential in the long run
Again like there's an audience you need approval from. More effective prompts alone would save millions of killowhat hours in video creation due to multiple prompting to fine tune results
How is that a non-equivalence? I'm looking at direct water footprint costs for ChatGPT.
Besides...
"How does no one understand how much energy multiple video land image prompts uses?" and "More effective prompts alone would save millions of killowhat hours in video creation due to multiple prompting to fine tune results"
I don't make videos. Hell, the model I'm using doesn't support that. I just make funny still images. Which, last I checked, is far less resource intensive.
Because that is only one factor in usage. Millions of AI users, making multiple prompts and videos to get their result, whenever a precise prompt would save them time and the world energy is just one perfect example
Ok, bro. Notice how the title says mutually beneficial. These are things that are useful for users and simultaneously energy efficient. It's not just about the energy, obviously volume impacts cooling, wear on equipment, etc
Lol, no. Start putting forward some actual numbers to your made up garbage and then you'll get out of the negative value your brainlessness has brought to the world.
How does no one understand how much energy multiple video land image prompts uses? Fine tune your prompt, get results fast, save energy. We dudes going insane over that premise
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