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Is anyone else concerned about the environmental impact of LLM’s? These things require so much power, water, and land.

I honestly think we’re gonna ignore it like we do with plastic. Another technology too ubiquitous, cheap and convenient to trade off.

[ento]

I'm concerned too, and awareness of this externality is what stays my hand, even if I set aside other concerns with LLMs. Mere efficiency, efficiency that we were fine without, and one we haven't built out infrastructure around it yet, doesn't seem worth the negative impact.