When it was first revealed how energy-hungry LLMs and related AIs are, there were no end of apologists claiming that AI didn't use much energy and it "just needed it for the learning" as if that was some kind of one-off thing that would soon be over.

Then we get the reality like this:

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This is in the middle of a deadly climate crisis where we are supposed to be lowering energy use instead of vastly increasing it.

We have to say no to this, we have to tell "generative AI" people that this is not acceptable and they are killing the world by supporting this crap.

#AI #LLM #LLMs