• 1 Post
  • 39 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 8th, 2022

help-circle


  • I’d like all ai service to publish the energy used in training the model and performing inference.

    “Queries uses an average of X kWh of power. A model training run requires X MWh, and the development of this model over the years required X TWh of power.”

    Then we could judge companies by that metric. Off course, rich people would look for the most power-draining model for the sake of it.















  • Is it actually ethically acceptable to control distribution of something that naturally shares itself?

    Before computers, it actually required some energy to copy the content of a book. With computers now, the action of reading an ebook will actually copy it from the hard drive to the ram. If your book is on the cloud, there’s even more copying going on. It actually takes more efforts to erase temporary copies (ex: from local cache)!

    Digital copying is not the same as physical copying.