• DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t accept AI implementation as a green product, and when the “green AI” they advertise is a special, low complexity opt-IN model I feel like I’m being bamboozled on two separate levels.

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      9 hours ago

      Your comment reads as if you don’t want them to offer AI, but if they do offer it then you want it to be either Opt-out or no opt out, and that you would prefer it to be a resource hungry AI at that. Is that what you meant to say? Because otherwise I don’t understand.

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        8 hours ago

        They could offer AI served off of a single RaspberryPi3 powered by a 2 gigawatt solar installation and the anti-AI crowd would find some other angle to attack it. The goal is to get people to think ‘AI Bad’, not any of the other strawmen that they stand up.

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          7 hours ago

          Nonsense. I run my own home hosted Ollama AI server 24/7. But I don’t claim it to be green tech in any way. Talk about strawman, I don’t see any claims regarding the worth of AI, perhaps I missed it?

          Fun fact, smaller model LLMs can run on Pi5 at not untolerable speed. Could work on solar I suppose.

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            7 hours ago

            You’re focusing on their use of AI, and that doesn’t make sense. AI is a technology that exists. Search engines and RAG is one of the better ways to use it. They are a search engine, why would they not use it?

            They’ve planted over 200 million trees, produce twice as much energy than they consume and have given over €90 million to green causes. They’re a non-profit company that gives 100% of their profits towards green initiatives, planting trees and investing in solar. It’s hardly greenwashing.

            What does the power usage of their search engine services matter if they’re producing more energy than they consume? Your complaint just doesn’t make sense.

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t want them to greenwash AI. So as long as a self-professed green company provides a claimed green AI I don’t agree with them.

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t want them to greenwash AI. So as long as a self-professed green company provides a claimed green AI I don’t agree with them.