• FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    Inference is dirt cheap. Short of a botnet, nothing we do will at all impact Grok’s finances.

    EDIT: I haven’t actually done the math if it is actually dirt cheap. But assuming it isn’t, then that makes it even more important not to use such a carbon-intensive AI.

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      3 hours ago

      Short of a botnet

      Well, yeah. Or a browser extension that can be circulated.

      Generating images and video are hella computationally expensive. requesting it to make millions of junk images will make a non-zero economic impact.

      Its also why sora got killed off.

      The carbon intensity wont make the product go away, but the economic cost will.

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        The carbon intensity wont make the product go away, but the economic cost will.

        The product won’t go away either way. I can’t foresee a scenario where Musk kills Grok. Short of a catastrophic global energy crisis that makes anything AI basically impossible to sustain, but that’d never happen.