I just want to make funny Pictures.

  • Flying SquidM
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    244 months ago

    There’s also the fact that it’s an ecological disaster when it comes to both carbon emissions and using up potable water.

      • @[email protected]
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        44 months ago

        That’s almost certainly more wasteful. The machines they run them on are going to be far more efficient.

        Running it locally is better because of all the other data mining that goes along with capitalism

        • @[email protected]
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          24 months ago

          But usually you don’t cool your PC with Freshwater. That’s something a lot of datacenters do.

          • @[email protected]
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            24 months ago

            That’s true.

            But in terms of power/emissions, data centers are far far better. The waste of potable water could be addressed if we make them, but the inefficiency of running locally cannot be.

            I still prefer to run locally anyways, because fuck the kind of people who are trying to sell AI, but it is absolutely more inherently wasteful

      • @merari42
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        04 months ago

        A GPT-4 level language model and current Flux dev can easily run on a standard M3 MacBook Air via ggml.