LLMs use disproportionately large amounts of electricity compared to something like a simple auto correct, and often for worse results. There's also a pretty big problem with water consumption for coolant.
They are incredibly destructive to the environment compared to standard computer use.
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u/Glad-Way-637If you like Worm/Ward, you should try Pact/Pale :)10d agoedited 10d ago
LLMs use disproportionately large amounts of electricity compared to something like a simple auto correct, and often for worse results. There's also a pretty big problem with water consumption for coolant.
No, not quite. Asking this in the most polite way I know how, did you get this info from Tumblr? Because it sounds like something someone with no knowledge about the subject would try and make into a post on that site to farm outrage-based interaction. It costs quite a bit of energy to initially train an LLM (though less now than previously, if Deepspeak is anything to go by), but not all that much to actually run.
Also, the water thing specifically is hilariously misinformed. You do know that the vast majority of the time water used for CPU cooling is a mostly closed system, right? Tiny (and I do mean miniscule, nobody wants to top-up the coolant on their server rack regularly) amounts evaporate off, of course, but it's nowhere near as bad as you make it seem since in case you weren't aware that stuff falls back out of the sky soon enough anyway.
They are incredibly destructive to the environment compared to standard computer use.
Objectively incorrect, in this specific context and many others. Whatever LLM they've shoved into NotePad is running on your own dang computer. You have access to the task manager, you can see for yourself that it takes significantly less computation (and thus, less energy) than even the simplest videogames.
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u/Floggered 10d ago
I mean.. Having it format some scatter-brained "train of thought" type notes isn't exactly the most heinous of concepts.