Forget the compute, what about the energy (and other resource) requirements?

Yes that’s what I meant. Compute requires energy, infrastructure, etc. easily more than 90% of it will be wasted, just LLMs processing meaningless data in cronjobs, for the few instances where there is something actually meaningful to report to the user

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matchbok3 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you want to ban almonds because they require a lot of water? (1000x more AI?)

	▲	rglover 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		People aren't mortgaging their existence to get a piece of the almond market.
	▲	dgellow 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I’m so suspicious of that exact claim being repeated everywhere since a few weeks, that really feels like a slogan astroturfed. It’s also fairly shallow analysis. Water is localized, you cannot do a meaningful comparison without taking in account the impact on specific water sources, an aggregate doesn’t give you any insight (other than having a slogan)