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AI Computing on Pace to Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says (news.bloomberglaw.com)
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AI’s voracious need for computing power is threatening to overwhelm energy sources, requiring the industry to change its approach to the technology, according to Arm Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Rene Haas.

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[–] whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds useful, but not at all worth the amount of energy being used to produce AI. You could just use that energy to feed/house people who could do the labor of denoising.

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know what you mean, but it's not really possible to manually denoise a picture the way the AI denoiser does. Let alone within 10 seconds. Plus, it's more of a niche usage. I don't think it consumes all that much energy.

Generating shitty images, creating deepfakes, prompting all kinds of bullshit... now that is a waste of energy as it really just makes the world worse. AI generated articles are popping up all over the internet. They aren't even reviewed anymore. Enshittification of the internet took some gigantic strides since the AI boom.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you know if the model is running locally or some cloud shit? If locally, the actual energy usage may be modest.

Energy spent training the model initially may have been prohibitive, though.

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 points 4 months ago

Good question, I'll look it up!