Your concern is the environmental impact? Why pick on LLMs vs Amazon or your local drug store? Or a local restaurant, for that matter?

Do the calculations for how much LLM use is required to equal one hamburger worth of CO2 — or the CO2 of commuting to work in a car.

If my daily LLM environmental impact is comparable to my lunch or going to work, it’s really hard to fault, IMO. They aren’t building data centers in the rainforest.

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OtomotO 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Why do you assume I am not concerned about the other sources of environmental impact?

Of course I don't go around posting everything I am concerned about when we are talking about a specific topic.

You're aware tho, that because of the AI hype sustainability programs were cut at all major tech firms?

	▲	dr_dshiv 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It also correlated with the discovery that voluntary carbon credits weren’t sufficient for their environmental marketing. If carbon credits were viewed as valid, I’m pretty sure they would have kept the programs.