Critics Call Trump’s Proposed White House UFC Match Pure “Idiocracy”
UFC President and CEO Dana White has donated at least $1 million to Trump’s campaign coffers.
Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group
British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.
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Environmentally-friendly AI? Is there such a thing?
After avoiding AI/LLLMs like the plague, I've been asking Duck.ai some fairly detailed questions, and have been, admittedly, pretty impressed with the results (after checking its references of course). For an oldster like me, it turns the search process on its head: a regular search turns up x hits, and I try to choose what appear to be the most reputable sites among them to find an answer, and then dig through text to find it; now I'm given the answer right away, and then I just have to check and make sure that it's actually correct.
Anyway, Mrs. Erinaceus keeps reminding me that AI sucks up huge amounts of energy (and water, too, apparently), much of it not from renewable sources. So my question is, is there any "acceptable" AI that has a good reputation for not serving slop and is also easy on the environment? Should I even be using AI at all? Mainly concerned about the environment here, I like to think I've been round long enough to have relatively well-developed bullshit detectors. Obviously want to avoid Big Tech LLMs too, unless there's some way of using them without them getting any benefit from it.
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AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
New study analyzes 15 million papers, reveals 13.5% of 2024 scientific publications show AI fingerprints through word pattern analysis.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group
Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group
British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.Brett Wilkins (Truthout)
People in Gaza living in 'cycle of trauma', says student
People in Gaza living in 'cycle of trauma', says student
Student Ghada Ashour has lived her whole life in Gaza, but she dreams of living and studying somewhere else, somewhere safer.Laura Fletcher (RTÉ)
Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza
B.C. judge says concerns 'overblown' in court challenge to Squamish townhouse project
VANCOUVER — The B.C. Supreme Court says concerns raised by Squamish, B.C., residents in a legal challenge to a townhouse development project areThe Canadian Press (Energeticcity.ca)
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Vaccinations rise when states button up religious loopholes | The push to remove religious exemptions for vaccines is meant to drive up vaccination rates. It's working.
Vaccinations rise when states button up religious loopholes
Unlike other kids in Massachusetts, students living in one Boston suburb won’t be able to go back to school next month unless they’ve had their chickenpox and measles shots, as well as other routine childhood vaccinations.Erika Edwards (NBC News)
Meta’s banning of two anti-Zionist comedians from Instagram is the latest example of Big Tech’s deep anti-Palestinian bias
The Instagram account of a well known anti-Zionist Jewish comedian was deleted after Meta’s Public Policy Director for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora viewed one of his stories. This is just one example of the anti-Palestinian bias across Big Tech.
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Alan Dershowitz Says, ‘If You Want to Destroy Hamas, You Have to Kill the Civilians’
Alan Dershowitz Says, ‘If You Want to Destroy Hamas, You Have to Kill the Civilians’ During Te ...
Former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz claimed "if you want to kill Hamas," you "have to kill the civilians who are being used as human shields."Charlie Nash (Mediaite)
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Genocide in Gaza
Monday: 39 dead
Tuesday: 79 dead
Wednesday: 79 dead
Thursday: 103 dead
Friday: 72 dead
Saturday: 81 dead
Sunday: 88 dead
Another week of genocide in #Gaza.
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la mancanza del gaming in quella estate della strambezza
L’altro giorno ho pensato, per un singolo micragnoso attimo, quanto strano sarebbe se per tutto il mese di giugno, o comunque giù di lì, il mio gaming commesso ammontasse a zero (0), o comunque giù di lì… ma è impossibile, vero? Ehh, insomma… Da un lato io non riesco a ricordare alcun momento di gaming […]
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
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AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
New study analyzes 15 million papers, reveals 13.5% of 2024 scientific publications show AI fingerprints through word pattern analysis.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
New study analyzes 15 million papers, reveals 13.5% of 2024 scientific publications show AI fingerprints through word pattern analysis.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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If it can help you to express better what you need to portray, then its the right tool for the job.
I would then use my own tool to remove the fluff and filler. I just hope that would come off by default. I don't need 3 paragraphs answers for numers, graphs, yes or no questions.
How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox
How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox
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How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox
How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox
Following the news that 9,000 people are being laid off at the company, one Xbox executive offered some questionable words of advice for people on their way ...Aaron Souppouris (Engadget)
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How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox
How AI can help you navigate layoffs, according to one executive producer at Xbox
Following the news that 9,000 people are being laid off at the company, one Xbox executive offered some questionable words of advice for people on their way ...Aaron Souppouris (Engadget)
Proton.me will accept Monero for a VPN payments by the end of this Summer (2025)
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I would love to be able to create a truly anonymous email account so I would like to be able to pay for premium accounts with Monero or Bitcoin.The Voice of the Proton Community
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'It's obvious that users are frustrated': consumer rights group accuses Microsoft of not providing a 'viable solution' for Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to Windows 11
- Microsoft recently threw a lifeline to consumers, offering alternatives to paying $30 for extended support for Windows 10
- Public Interest Research Group thinks this doesn't go far enough in terms of avoiding an impending e-waste calamity
- The organization suggests Microsoft considers providing longer-term support for Windows 10, or relaxes the spec requirements for Windows 11
'It's obvious that users are frustrated': consumer rights group accuses Microsoft of not providing a 'viable solution' for Windows 10 users who can't upgrade to Windows 11
PIRG believes Microsoft still isn't doing enough to help those stuck on Windows 10Darren Allan (TechRadar)
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in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •If you run it on your own hardware then you know exactly how much energy it's using. Some of the models can even run on the average computer, but the quality is not great.
The problem we have right now is where everyone is trying to use generative AI for everything, all the time, even for basic takes such as googling for a fact, simple math that could be done on a calculator, etc. They're also often using the latest and greatest AI models, which are powerful and spend a lot of processing power each time. In order to run the servers to respond to all that, companies use a large amount of power, and then use water to cool the servers. That's the water usage from what I understand.
So if you use a simpler / more efficient model, and only use it for tasks where it's better than conventional tools, you'll be doing much better power usage wise.
Alas Poor Erinaceus
in reply to Otter • • •Thanks! 👍
BTW, are the Chinese way ahead of the US in this like they are with renewables and electric cars? They'll probably figure out a way to have AI use significantly less power before "we" can.
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in reply to Alas Poor Erinaceus • • •The real power consumption cost is from the model training. The marginal cost of running a query is small. Unless you use LLMs heavily, you probably use more power in many other ways, like if you forget to put your computer to sleep.
More training means better models, generally. If you want to minimize that, look for smaller models on HuggingFace that are more tightly focused on whatever task you have at hand.
Or, you could just do most of your queries when your local electricity mix has more renewables.