Re: "I understand that it's a huge privacy risk, but does anyone…"

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@stack Well uh I guess it's the thought that counts

🗡️ The_Jackal [OP]

2025-12-11 · 5 months ago

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🐙 norayr · Dec 12 at 00:41:

my understandung is that training an llm model and running those datacenters to serve users is extremely expensive.

and afaik openai, probably as well as others, doesn't earn as much as they spend.

so even if you are a paid user, you get for your money something, which is much more expensive to produce and serve. that's because those companies currently are getting more in investments, so that they can afford being not profitable.

so whatever you do, ask ai to solve a programming problem or just use it to talk bs with it, it costs lots of money. and lots of energy.

🐙 norayr · Dec 12 at 00:43:

so i guess not talking bs to a model, be it local or in the cloud, is sort of like having your cent, your small part in not warming the planet for nothing. just like some people try to not overeat though the food is cheap and to not buy clothes very often, though it is very affordable.

🚀 stack · Dec 12 at 00:47:

I think it's not so much energy in operation, as it's multiplexed over many users. And it's pretty slow in response.

If you want to save the planet, don't eat meat and don't replace a working car with a new Tesla. Connecting to a server, be it a search engine or AI, in one of a dozen data centers is not very consequential

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🗡️ The_Jackal:

I understand that it's a huge privacy risk, but does anyone else like going to shitty chatbot character sites like Janitor AI and tormenting the bots with nonsense?

💬 13 comments · 2025-12-09 · 5 months ago