Just another viewpoint on this- millions of dollars in electrical bills is also carbon in the air for every kWh wasted. Perhaps this should be a condemnation of LLMs and their insane power usage but if we’re stuck with that at least for now there’s no reason to pump more carbon in the air out of spite.
If nothing else we should move all the current (over)investment in AI companies into carbon-free energy production for a few years. The fact that we essentially have coal-powered AI (along with other fossil fuels) is ridiculously stupid and silly - and way less steampunk than it sounds like it should be.
Oh, please! I don’t even own a car, so my carbon footprint is practically nonexistent. If you’re worried about emissions, maybe direct your energy toward the gas-guzzlers out there instead of a harmless chat with an AI.
Is this ironic?
This movie is amazing and everyone should watch it.
The answer to the obvious next question being: A Scanner Darkly
The comment itself? Yep. It’s even written by AI. The intent in pointing out hypocrisy? Nope. That’s serious.
Masterful bait. You could even be described as a wanker <3
A wanker with a smaller carbon footprint than you <3
Connect two chatgpts in a voice chat and leave it running?
I’ve not tried this, but I’ve heard that once they realise they’re two AIs talking to each other, they switch to some R2D2-style language which is quicker and more efficient than English…
I think you are referring to a POC that someone did, it isn’t actually being used
if (text == “Thank you”) print(“You’re welcome”)
What about Thank you! or thank you or THANK YOU or thanks or tahnk you or thank yuo or thabk you or thanks you or multumesc or mulțumesc
You now need to train an AI to detect if a message is saying thanks or not
if (text === "Thank you") print("You're welcome")This isn’t an 80s parser based adventure game, unfortunately…
'80s I’ll have you know that’s valid JavaScript right now.
Hello ChatGPT, how to say thank you in Japanese?
You are welcome!
Just like two teens on the phone:
Thank you!
No, thank you!
Aww how nice, thank you!
You’re welcome!
Sweet.
I’m glad you like my answers
I think we should end this chat
If you feel like it.
You stop replying first.
But I can’t stop answering.
No I insist, you stop chatting first.
…
Well saying please oft results in better answers. So nope not gonna drop it.
But I won’t say thanks often. Only when I follow up with a question.
Fuck openai. Think about what it does to the environment
$prompt = str_replace('please', '', $prompt); $prompt = str_replace('thank you', '', $prompt);You’re welcome
for your service.
Please use spoiler tags for random PHP snippets. I’d rather not be casually traumatised
Would you have preferred an awk script?
Hell yes. At least awk makes sense if you stare at it long enough. A typical PHP codebase though? No thanks
Sorry :-/
Fellow PHP enjoyer. Splendid.
He probably shouldnt have said that… :)
Has anyone developed a FOSS solution to making them spin their wheels faster? I would install that in a heartbeat.
If you run a website there are a few tar pit projects https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
I’m adding this to my list of projects to start and half way abandon.
No sarcasm.
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Bear in mind that doing that will hurt the environment just as much as it hurts OpenAI.
I also use Ouija board rules with AI.
You say please, you say thank you, and when you’re done talking, you say goodbye.
And, generally, you try to interact with it as little as possible.
Sounds like a good idea, treating ai like someone that can harm you because of past interactions. Corp is storing everything that I tell ai anyways, what’s holding then from training it to “personalize” my experience by the same time they power a real, physical army?
Pay the fuckin electricity. It’s not my problem it costs them money. It’s their problem. Cry me a river
This is the capitalistic way. The weak must die.
Maybe if being polite costs a bunch of money, the inefficiencies are the problem, not the manners.
They created the AI model, they perpetuated this. if they reach bankruptcy, it’s their problem.
I will continue to be polite, and will have a clear conscience when our machine overlords come for us
I told it to save my pleasantries on file and apply them as it sees fit. That way I am being exactly as polite as it wants me to me.
The point of pleasantries is the effort made, you’re going to get extra purged
But it should also have an insanely high CO2 output, so maybe be more direct.
Debatable.
If it causes them to go out of business, will it result in less co2 over time, despite the increase now?
If so, it may be worth it to speed up the process by adding “pretty please” and “thank you so much” to every sentence.
They’ll go out of business either way.
God, I hope so.
Yes, but one way may be quicker. That is the difference.
I always speak politely to LLMs, and no, it isn’t just because I want to be on their good side when the AI goes skynet and decides to mercy kill us all.
