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by andrepd 248 days ago
Another win for big tech: Google has been enshittified to such a point that you can now spin up a machine that consumes 1000x the power to give you a result that has a coin toss odds of being totally made up.
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That's nothing! Next gen will use the entire power output of a small nation for a week, to tell you a nice cake recipe.
A search query probably uses about 10x more electricity than a matching LLM query. There's enough wiggle-room depending on the assumptions that they might be about even. There is no way search uses 1/1000th of an LLM.
What questions are you asking LLMs where they're wrong 50% of the time?
People love gambling.