• expr@programming.dev
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    9 hours ago

    It doesn’t need nearly as many. AI inference is orders of magnitude more expensive than a single search query (ignoring the fact that Google does it’s own inference with search queries now). And that doesn’t even include training, which is stupidly expensive to do.

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      7 hours ago

      Sure. But let’s not pretend Web search is innocent here. Wanna be eco friendly, walk to your local library.