• ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    … someone using a GPT model for something like generating a list of words is a little like a climate activist yelling at someone for taking their car to the grocery store while standing across the street from a coal-burning power plant.

    no, it’s like a billion people taking their respective cars to the grocery store multiple times a day each while standing across the street from one coal-burning power plant.

    each person can say they are the only one and their individual contribution is negligible. but get all those drips together and you actually have a deluge of unnecessary wastage.

    • archomrade [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Except each of those drips are subject to the same system that preferences individualized transport

      This is still a perfect example, because while you’re nit-picking the personal habits of individuals who are a fraction of a fraction of the total contributors to GPT model usage, huge multi-billion dollar entities are implementing it into things that have no business using it and are representative for 90% of llm queries.

      Similar for castigating people for owning ICE vehicles, who are not only uniquely pressued into their use but are also less than 10% of GHG emissions in the first place.

      Stop wasting your time attacking individuals using the tech for help in their daily tasks, they aren’t the problem.