Everything uses energy. AI is uniquely bad due to its scale. Comparing AI inference and training with posting a one-line comment on a website is like comparing wildfires with candles because they both produce heat. It's true but useless as an argument.
what is that not true of? HN and your post on it is paying with our planet
Everything uses energy. AI is uniquely bad due to its scale. Comparing AI inference and training with posting a one-line comment on a website is like comparing wildfires with candles because they both produce heat. It's true but useless as an argument.
Complaining about AI is just a meme. There are tons of things that use way more energy for arguably way less utility to humans.
AI was not even a thing a few years ago so almost anything that use more energy than AI is probably far more useful