• bjorney
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    3 days ago

    also for the environment, I would think. It saves a ton of useless traffic

    GPT is worse and it’s not even close.

    My PC can serve up a hundred requests per second running an HTTP server with a connected database with 200W power usage

    It takes that same computer 30-60s to return a response from a 13B parameter model (WAY less power usage than GPT), while using 400W of power thanks to the GPU

    Napkin math, the AI response uses about 10,000x more electricity

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      3 days ago

      Yes that is true. AI is incredibly bad for the environment.

      But crawlers, spitting out stuff as text, shouldnt be that complicated tbh. And should save a lot of energy.