The ongoing genAI debate, vol. 1

What are you talking about? A person tackling a tedious, routine task over the course of a week will consume just as much - if not more - electricity than an LLM solving the same task in minutes. It’s all just sophistry. And what about someone running local models that consume exactly the same amount of electricity as a 3D shooter player?

Should all gamers also be ostracized for being unethical (after all, they kill people in the game!) and for polluting the environment with their RTX 5090s - which consume three times less power than a kettle? Any electric kettle or air conditioner consumes significantly more electricity than I do when running a local model for log analysis on my 250-watt Tesla V100.

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