• Maalus@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    How much energy was used to bring the truckload of groceries into the shop that one time so hundreds of people can use it?

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      5 days ago

      Great point, so are you saying there is a certain threshold above which training is energetically useful but under which it is not, e.g. if training of a large model is used by 1 person, it is not sustainable but if 1 million people use it (assuming it’s done productively, not spam or scam) then it is fine?

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          Results? I have no idea what you are talking about. I thought we were discussing the training cost (my initial question) and that the truckload was an analogy to argue that the impact from that upfront costs is spread among users.