Notices by Halfy! ? :cfz: CFZ2023 (halfy@mastodon.half-shot.uk)

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

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.

@feditips How does Masto Web get a thumbnail for the media. Is it embedded in the post?