AI Needs Your Help!
AI Needs Your Help!
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AI Needs Your Help
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I'm with you, but this is satire to raise awareness about the resource usage of AI
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There is a community here on Lemmy quite literally named "Fuck AI". Don't know if you have heard of it.
Either way, here is the link: !fuck_ai@lemmy.world
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Yes and it would be great if we could keep them separate.
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I came here to say the same thing.
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And my Axe!
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The "AI" I run locally on my own GPU takes 0 mL of water per request. This paper assumes that AI and GPT (more specifically GPT-3) are interchangeable terms. It is biased, it is a negation of the FOSS world and it is weirdly aligned with the corporate hype around the subject. If even opponents of OpenAI accept their propaganda, we are in bad shape.
"AI" does not need water and does not need to emit CO2. It needs electricity, and we know how to produce electricity without emitting CO2 and using water. OpenAI and big datacenters do not, but they are the problem, the tech itself is not.
Please don't let companies use the cheap trick of using "AI" as a puppet to present their own interests and their own way of doing things as the only way to do "AI".
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Fuck I hate it when anything uses "water consumed" as a bad thing.
Writing a 100-word email consumes about 500ml of water (17 oz).
500ml of water is used in a cooling system. This water is not lost in any way, it's just warmed up and evaporated. Which then falls as rain again.
If you draw more water from a particular area than that area can support it's a bad thing. Otherwise, this is just a stupid argument made to appeal to emotions rather than logic.
Where I live, our main water source is a lake, and we only even bother closing the weir(a type of dam) that holds the water in come the middle of March, and open it completely again in October. We just just let billions of liters flow directly out to the ocean the rest of the year.
Especially for AI, you don't need to locate datacenters near population centers at all, the latency doesn't affect that use case at all. So it should be easy enough to build them in locations that have easy access to cheap energy and large amounts of water, pretty much anywhere that has a hydro electric dam is a good choice.
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Fuck I hate it when anything uses “water consumed” as a bad thing.
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This water is not lost in any way, it’s just warmed up and evaporated. Which then falls as rain again.
oh, wow, yeah, evaporated water does fall again as rain 🤔
why didn't anyone think of this before? so many wars could have been avoided!
finally, a hydrology understander has logged on to explain why water usage isn't even a problem. thank you for clearing this up!
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