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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would be interesting to see the annual global power consumption from design choices like this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Probably negligible compared to the bundled AI tools

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm convinced a lot of the "AI tools" in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as "AI" in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren't at least.