• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Well, having a crawler search through all that garbage, ads, questions, wrong answers. And converting that to facts or condensed information…

    Just makes so much more sense, also for the environment, I would think. It saves a ton of useless traffic.

    But the “AI” part may be problematic.

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        3 days ago

        One time, chatGPT gave me a code in Python to use a specific Python library. When I said I was coding in Ruby on Rails, it converted the Python code to Ruby syntax.

        It literally made up a solution.

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      3 days ago

      also for the environment, I would think. It saves a ton of useless traffic

      GPT is worse and it’s not even close.

      My PC can serve up a hundred requests per second running an HTTP server with a connected database with 200W power usage

      It takes that same computer 30-60s to return a response from a 13B parameter model (WAY less power usage than GPT), while using 400W of power thanks to the GPU

      Napkin math, the AI response uses about 10,000x more electricity

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        3 days ago

        Yes that is true. AI is incredibly bad for the environment.

        But crawlers, spitting out stuff as text, shouldnt be that complicated tbh. And should save a lot of energy.