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> I expect power requirements to fall away

This sounds extremely naive to my ears. Performance demands currently outpace resource utilization reductions and it's not clear that we're at the point where that will change soon. Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

> > There are also ethical concerns regarding the methods used to obtain data for training AI models.

> This one hasn't registered as problematic for me. Maybe I'm unethical?

Yeah, the real ethical concern comes from the explosion of pernicious slop output that is utterly destroying everything good about the internet and media, not the training.




You mean speeding up the destruction of the internet and media?

The problem is it was falling apart before generative AI. This AI has just hastened its demise.


Sure, yes, but it has definitely gotten a lot worse.




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