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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI (jacobin.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ai devinetively has its use cases and boosts productivity if used right. The stuff google did is just the most bullshit ever seen. Its an example of useless Ai because of the "need" to use Ai.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Ok that we agree entirely. Google is worried that their investors will worry because their investors are too dumb to understand that LLMs and Search are two separate things and one isn’t necessarily better because it uses the other.