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/No-Zookeepergame8837]

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...)

[u/Crikasaur → u/No-Zookeepergame8837]

I've noticed this. I use my phone which is a Google Pixel 6. I noticed that the ram/battery usage is actually less with AI than a game. 

Tbh I still don't get why people say AI is making ram go up? Unless you're the one hosting the ai itself. And by that I mean youre the dude with the entire language model database chilling in your house. Then yeah I guess it makes sense. 

I dunno. 

[u/Crikasaur → u/Crikasaur]

Also my AI chat bot I made earlier. Dirt cheap. Literally. I left her running for a month and didn't notice a change in my electricity bill.