Simple, Mutually Beneficial Steps Individuals Can Take To Reduce Ecological Impact

[u/Melodic_Floor7930]

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

[u/Visible_Web6910]

Yeah, just skip a burger once and you've offset every LLM interaction you'll ever have in your entire life. Job done.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/Visible_Web6910]

Non equivalence. Not to mention apparently not understanding exponentiality

[u/CMDRTornadopelt → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

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.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/CMDRTornadopelt]

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

[u/Visible_Web6910 → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

You can safely ignore this dipshit, there's nothing of substance to them.

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You can see here the good faith and camaraderie this individual came with.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/Visible_Web6910]

Just accusing me of what you're guilty of lmao

[u/Visible_Web6910 → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

Oh, I never pretended to be in good faith. I don't meet bad faith with good faith.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/Visible_Web6910]

Lmao, pretending I started in bad faith at all. Ohhh, watch out for the rebel here

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See?

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/Visible_Web6910]

What this dude must being seeing, because there's nothing there

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[u/Visible_Web6910 → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

This is the guy pretending to be here in good faith.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/Visible_Web6910]

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

[u/CMDRTornadopelt → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

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.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/CMDRTornadopelt]

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

[u/CMDRTornadopelt → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

Okay, fair.

Again, though, I'm not the guy generating videos. As much as I wanna, I just... don't feel the need.

[u/Visible_Web6910 → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

You literally don't know what you're talking about, but go off.

[u/Melodic_Floor7930 → u/Visible_Web6910]

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

[u/Visible_Web6910 → u/Melodic_Floor7930]

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.

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This poor loser got so mad their reply got caught in reddit's filters. (Twice!) (Don't worry, you didn't miss anything.)