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   Pissed Hippo (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 23:37:35 JST Pissed Hippo

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   • Halfy! ? :cfz: CFZ2023
   @halfy I would support this but only if there is absolutely 100% correlation between usage and tax with no political "well this is important so it gets a tax cut/subsidy"
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     Halfy! ? :cfz: CFZ2023 (halfy@mastodon.half-shot.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 23:37:38 JST Halfy! ? :cfz: CFZ2023

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     I deeply feel these things need regulation. You should pay for the emissions you create regardless of whether it's your GPU or some massive server farm.

     The fact that it's so cheap to do this means we're going to kill the planet by scanning pictures of food and generating fake news.

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     Halfy! ? :cfz: CFZ2023 (halfy@mastodon.half-shot.uk)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 23:37:41 JST Halfy! ? :cfz: CFZ2023

     I think the most regrettable thing about AI is how the resource requirements quickly became abstracted behind datacenters.

     It costs so much power (and therefore emissions) to run, but because we now fire these requests off to AWS / Google Cloud we don't see the damage we are doing.

     Goes for regular workloads too, but x1000

     https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c51yvz51k2xo