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@velzie@booping.synth.download "It's bad for the environment" is honestly the weakest argument against machine learning technology in my opinion.

Literally anything you do is a waste of energy. Playing a video game is waste of energy. Watching video is a waste of energy.

Nobody ever complains about these things because they are meaningful to us, but when it is something that is not meaningful it is very easy to say that it is a waste.

Personally I don't think the use of energy is necessarily a waste if it is meaningful to someone at least.

A much stronger argument against the use of machine learning technology in my opinion is that most of these models are fully proprietary and locked behind a paid API service.

They handcuff their userbase with full control over the software and top of that they are also collective a lot of private data on them.

Absolutely not become dependent on it, it will cost you your livelihood as soon as the companies like OpenAI start to change something that you relied on in their service or if they started refusing your access.