Notices by spaduf (spaduf@hachyderm.io)

@feditips One HUGE caveat to this is to note the difference between inference and training. The differences in resource usage are fairly massive, but training costs should be thought of as closer to an initial upfront cost rather than an ongoing expense of resources.

@feditips Heads up, a lot of the work suggesting these outlandish water usage stats have since been debunked as overblown. Here's an article (https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05149) that discusses some issues in methodology and goes further to point out that a significant portion of the ecosystem still has hardly been optimized. I understand criticisms about inhuman accessibility mechanisms and the potential for error/alienation, but I'm not sure we should be discouraging it on the basis of climate.