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Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
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Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means that the current low fertility rate associated with economic progress and education might not lead to the collapse of technological civilisation even if the population drops to a more sustainable level.
I worry that it may mainly lead to spamming become even cheaper and more effective more than it will aid technological advancement.
Nah we'll just have to move to better communication systems - something like web of trust. We tap our phones, and from now on I know that anything that claims to be from you is from you. My friends trust that what you claim to have written came from you because they trust me. If you start spouting nonsense, I downgrade your contact information in my list and my friends get the same hint.
The open internet itself, yes, it won't survive the next few years - but then there's no stopping this. We could ban AIs in the west, which is the only place that sort of law might work, but Russia, North Korea, Iran, China - they'll still use it to mess with us.
Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
#13Can we change the link to the Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x?
What else was the human doing besides generating text and images while that CO2 was being produced? Is the human supposed to cease producing CO2 when they stop generating text and images?
This is some galaxy-brained shit. All this study really says is you should be using pen and paper.
Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
It means that the current low fertility rate associated with economic progress and education might not lead to the collapse of technological civilisation even if the population drops to a more sustainable level.
We've encouraged a low fertility rate so that replacement migration can occur[1]. [1]: https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/412547
This article suggests, in the year 2000, that replacement migration might be a way to combat low fertility rate in the west.
I don't think you can encourage low fertility rate. I don't think we did in the west.
I also know there's nowhere to get our replacement from once the whole world is educated. Technological accelerationism might save us, or it might doom us.
It's all rather exciting, isn't it?
Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
#16A Modest Proposal for Preventing Poor Creatives from Being a Burthen to Tech Professionals or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick
Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
#17Well, of course it is. The information density is less in AI writing, and as more AI writers are trained on more AI writing, will approach random entropy. This is merely thermodynamics at work. /s
Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
#18I am sure AI reading the texts and AI looking at art produces less co2 as well.
AI's don't need to fly across the world on globe trotting vacations so of course they emit less CO2.
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#19Study: Random text generation shell script emits billions of times less carbon than humans writing novels.
Re: Study: AI writing, illustration emits hundreds of times less carbon than humans
#20I will only mention that I don't see LLM output as overly satisfactory. Now. I would compare this to how humans use more carbon to move than a car for example. This could lead to a conclusion that we should stop moving and use more efficient propulsion to move. In car centered societies people move less and then need to exercise after hours more to have any sort of fitness at all. Of course there is a grunt body (and…
> I will only mention that I don't see LLM output as overly satisfactory.
This is changing very quickly, but even today you many not be aware of how well LLMs can create plausible drafts if you haven't seen what Claude 3 Opus can do with good prompting.