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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • They’re definitely not. Hard drives use a fraction of the energy a single LLM prompt does. A study calculated that every 100 words uses an entire water bottle’s worth of water. That’s a lot of cooling for 100 words. It’s very likely that these companies use several gpus for every single prompt, meaning huge servers for just a few users.

    Meanwhile the internet archive has archived a significant portion of the internet with nary a data center in sight.

    You can compress video. You can’t compress the energy needed to generate output.



  • I think you would switch your tune if you realized how much data your phone provider is selling about you. SMS is so much worse than Apple’s iMessage, which is e2e encrypted.

    Like it’s pretty telling that Apple didn’t give data to the government when a literal terrorist killed a bunch of people, but the Feds can put in a simple request form and get the same data from Google in ten minutes.

    The phone providers all sell off your info on their data marketplaces.